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The Fix Is In
(As if we ever doubted that white men’s lives were worth more)
Not that anyone with a slight understanding of critical thinking ever doubted it, but the outpouring of resources currently employed in finding the person who shot and killed UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson this week glaringly underlines the ugly fact that a middle-aged white executive’s life is vastly more highly valued than that of “the person” shot and killed in Brooklyn on Sunday.
All we get to know about that “person” is that they’re dead and no arrests have been made. We don’t even get told if that person was a man or a woman. Want to lay some bets on how many drones the NYPD has deployed to determine who is responsible for killing that “person”?
It’s darkly comical to consider the mad scramble happening in gated communities all over the country right now as formerly complacent executives suddenly realize that they’re walking around with a big old “Shoot me” sign on the middle of their backs. I’m not laughing, mind you, because ultimately it’s us — the ones whose lives don’t matter so much — that will be paying for their sudden realization that they and their organizations are so hated. Can they really be surprised?
The rich will continue to isolate themselves inside bullet-proof vehicles, behind walled-in compounds and inside…
