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Manhattan Shooting and the Rise of Luigism: Those celebrating the murder of Wesley LePatner reveal a dark, rising undercurrent in our culture. (www.city-journal.org)

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[–] Arkham@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I ran across the term "social murder" a while back, which seems to describe the type of murder that Brian Thompson was guilty of.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Like Charles Manson, who was convicted of 7 counts of first degree murder, Thompson didn't (that we're aware of) directly kill anyone. However, Thompson's body count was multiple orders of magnitude higher and he was given a bonus for it, instead of life in prison.