Reddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto.
I mean, yeah? Reddit has been censoring anything even mildly critical of the health care industry, much less actual links to a manifesto. And no, I don’t mean them tossing anything celebrating Brian Thompson’s death. Even just, “Maybe we should reform this mess” often gets deleted and the user banned.
Reddit has gone full corpo (not surprisingly now that it is a publicly-traded company).
Maybe the kind of very even handed “neutral” op-eds you see is partially motivated by not wanting to end up on a list. Y’know, in addition a large swath of people barely conceiving of white collar crime as crime let alone thinking of it as harmful or more harmful than street crime.
Law enforcement went past a list straight to charges here,
I don’t know what else happened in that call or if there is anything they’re not stating — but the woman says she has no criminal record and says she owns no guns. All fundraising campaigns to cover her bail were removed.
This is “person who shares a name with a terrorist makes a joke while in a TSA line and the terror alert is red or orange” threat reaction level.
Good point about large swathes of people not getting that white collar crime is crime at all (perhaps because they too wish to engage in it, or already have).
I saw that story. It tells me even more than I realized that the killing of Thompson deeply scared the plutocrats, their worshipers and their enablers. They very quickly went from feeling untouchable to vulnerability. And since many of them feel that they rule and are inherently superior by some form of nouveau divine right, this was quite the transition and a real shock.
Crackdowns and witch hunts tend to happen when a rich person is harmed. Bernie Madoff went to jail after he made off with billions in rich people’s money; no one powerful and not a single bankster spent even a minute in jail for causing millions of Americans to lose their homes following the Great Recession.
I’d expect this to get worse as rich whip themselves up into even more frantic frenzies of fear.
Far more people are taught that white collar crime is barely crime from the jump.
White collar crime simply isn’t constructed as being as bad, and garners lighter punishment, if at all. The first time I saw the argument that white collar crime is the same if not worse than street crime, I was so shocked. I wanted to throw the essay against the wall, because the train of thought that followed and conclusions it was making were a complete mirror reversal of everything I’d been taught.
Peter Thiel was on tv faking nervousness and stuttering by eating a 2,000,000+ Scoville hot sauce candy because he decided that’s the way he’d get the best PR Or it’s real.
That’s a good paper. I didn’t even think about white collar crime till I started trading stocks. Before that, it was so divergent from my experience that it just was not on my radar at all.
The Peter Thiel thing is bizarre. With only a few exceptions, the super-rich get very insulated from the world, and then become extremely unmoored.