Abené Clayton
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It's violent. But obviously, Brian Thompson is not a young black boy on the corner who's unfortunately gunned down. But to see his victimhood also questioned in this way is it's been interesting to to watch. Hmm.
Then when you see documents that show how sometimes arbitrary these decisions are, people's lives are being played with. You know what I'm saying? So that a spreadsheet is balanced. And that's a recipe for resentment. One thing that is usually a component of why someone shoots someone else is around resentment.
Then when you see documents that show how sometimes arbitrary these decisions are, people's lives are being played with. You know what I'm saying? So that a spreadsheet is balanced. And that's a recipe for resentment. One thing that is usually a component of why someone shoots someone else is around resentment.
Then when you see documents that show how sometimes arbitrary these decisions are, people's lives are being played with. You know what I'm saying? So that a spreadsheet is balanced. And that's a recipe for resentment. One thing that is usually a component of why someone shoots someone else is around resentment.
grievance right you have done me wrong and it sounds like and obviously we don't know like luigi is innocent till proven guilty he hasn't made any statements it's unclear what his motivations are but based on the context and the information that we have now it appears that a part of the thinking was like you have hurt all these people sending this signal is worthwhile i mean on that point right i've seen a lot of people
grievance right you have done me wrong and it sounds like and obviously we don't know like luigi is innocent till proven guilty he hasn't made any statements it's unclear what his motivations are but based on the context and the information that we have now it appears that a part of the thinking was like you have hurt all these people sending this signal is worthwhile i mean on that point right i've seen a lot of people
grievance right you have done me wrong and it sounds like and obviously we don't know like luigi is innocent till proven guilty he hasn't made any statements it's unclear what his motivations are but based on the context and the information that we have now it appears that a part of the thinking was like you have hurt all these people sending this signal is worthwhile i mean on that point right i've seen a lot of people
You know, when I knew that I'd be coming on to talk about this topic, I started paying more attention to cable news. And I saw people straight up like, Right. And say, oh, and there's this like disgusting perversion and people loving it and like having that become a part of the story feels incredibly tone deaf. Right. And I'm also concerned that mainstream media.
You know, when I knew that I'd be coming on to talk about this topic, I started paying more attention to cable news. And I saw people straight up like, Right. And say, oh, and there's this like disgusting perversion and people loving it and like having that become a part of the story feels incredibly tone deaf. Right. And I'm also concerned that mainstream media.
You know, when I knew that I'd be coming on to talk about this topic, I started paying more attention to cable news. And I saw people straight up like, Right. And say, oh, and there's this like disgusting perversion and people loving it and like having that become a part of the story feels incredibly tone deaf. Right. And I'm also concerned that mainstream media.
national news is putting the same sort of burden of badness, if you will, on people getting their jokes off on the internet, on people who are saying, who are telling their stories, right, of these horrific outcomes because of shoddy healthcare coverage. They're putting those on the same level as folks who have actually contributed to that harm, right? Like you can't,
national news is putting the same sort of burden of badness, if you will, on people getting their jokes off on the internet, on people who are saying, who are telling their stories, right, of these horrific outcomes because of shoddy healthcare coverage. They're putting those on the same level as folks who have actually contributed to that harm, right? Like you can't,
national news is putting the same sort of burden of badness, if you will, on people getting their jokes off on the internet, on people who are saying, who are telling their stories, right, of these horrific outcomes because of shoddy healthcare coverage. They're putting those on the same level as folks who have actually contributed to that harm, right? Like you can't,
say that you're just as bad as the billionaire who is buying up these homes and selling them at exorbitant rates. You're just as bad as that person because you got a joke off about Brian Thompson. That's just not true. We can't equate those. And I think that doing so will only lead to more alienation and lead people to double down. You know what I'm saying? It's dangerous.
say that you're just as bad as the billionaire who is buying up these homes and selling them at exorbitant rates. You're just as bad as that person because you got a joke off about Brian Thompson. That's just not true. We can't equate those. And I think that doing so will only lead to more alienation and lead people to double down. You know what I'm saying? It's dangerous.
say that you're just as bad as the billionaire who is buying up these homes and selling them at exorbitant rates. You're just as bad as that person because you got a joke off about Brian Thompson. That's just not true. We can't equate those. And I think that doing so will only lead to more alienation and lead people to double down. You know what I'm saying? It's dangerous.
The polarization you mentioned, whenever there is a high profile kind of vigilante style shooting, it's usually pretty evenly split along party lines, right? You think of Trayvon Martin, of Ahmaud Arbery, you know, so many folks who were shot by usually a white or white adjacent person who said, I'm taking the lawn to my own hand.
The polarization you mentioned, whenever there is a high profile kind of vigilante style shooting, it's usually pretty evenly split along party lines, right? You think of Trayvon Martin, of Ahmaud Arbery, you know, so many folks who were shot by usually a white or white adjacent person who said, I'm taking the lawn to my own hand.
The polarization you mentioned, whenever there is a high profile kind of vigilante style shooting, it's usually pretty evenly split along party lines, right? You think of Trayvon Martin, of Ahmaud Arbery, you know, so many folks who were shot by usually a white or white adjacent person who said, I'm taking the lawn to my own hand.
Usually you can rely on how people are going to feel about that, on who they voted for in their politics. And I think they were going to see the alleged shooter as this sort of like Antifa figure who their base would reject. But their base, I'm sure, was among the Americans who were like, yeah, I got health care, but it don't work for me.