The assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson horrified most of the people who heard about it or saw the video. But not everyone.
A significant number of people on the political Left used social media to celebrate the death of a corporate executive in an unpopular industry. Blaze columnist Auron MacIntyre told the Jenna Ellis in the Morning show that the hard Left is actually saying the killing was justified.
“But because the person he shot was a healthcare CEO, and this dovetails into the Left’s narrative, all of a sudden maybe the violence is something that we can celebrate,” MacIntyre said.
A few blocks away in Manhattan, Daniel Penny was acquitted of manslaughter charges in the death of a black man threatening subway riders. The violence in that case was condemned and one BLM activist even called for retribution.
“Just like everybody else has vigilantes, we need some black vigilantes,” said Hank Newsome, the president of Black Lives Matter New York.
Race mattered in Penny arrest
MacIntyre says if the threat on the subway had been white and was killed, no one would have batted an eye.
“Daniel Penny was very clearly singled out because of his race. It's the optics of the situation. No one would have cared if a white hobo had been threatening people and then ended up getting restrained.”
He says conflicting narratives like these are born from a corrupt system that convinces people that race is at the heart of every violent act.
“I think the big thing for Donald Trump is going to be the need to restore faith in our process and in our institutions, and what that's going to require, in the case of many of these institutions, is for them to be dismantled,” MacIntyre said.
