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Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero (archive.ph)

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I nominate this NYT opinion piece for shittiest take of 2024!

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[–] FuglyDuck 337 points 2 weeks ago (46 children)

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Thompson “grew up in a working-class family in Jewell, Iowa,” a tiny farming community north of Des Moines, Amy Julia Harris and Ernesto Londoño report. “His mother was a beautician, according to family friends, and his father worked at a facility to store grain.” Thompson’s childhood was spent “going row by row through the fields to kill weeds with a knife, or working manual labor at turkey and hog farms.”

is true... then he's a class traitor; not a hero. he made his money fucking over the working class. that's not heroic.

[–] hypnicjerk 101 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

you really think someone would do that? just go on a once-respected publication and tell lies?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

But they're not lying. It's pretty reasonable to believe both that his parents were working class, and that him becoming a class traitor on such a level does make him a hero in capitalist eyes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] hypnicjerk 4 points 2 weeks ago

i don't think it's lying, necessarily. i suspect that it's embellishing, and it's inarguably providing an incomplete, intentionally flattering picture.

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