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Let me tell you something that bothers me: Brian Thompson's death was not a murder, it is an assassination (do not accept the media terms) (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Murder makes the intent sound more petty; less important, more personal, and less political than it really is

Assassination indicates political intent and societal effect, and even a sketchy history of skeletons behind the assassinated that led to this

But the cultural hegemonic capitalist lib and con media don't wanna hear anything about such history.

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[-] asg101@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

I consider it pesticide.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Yep...

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Use the old word for it - Liquidation

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Money goes in, money goes out. All the while, a CEO croaks loud.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

I feel like if you go by this logic "self defense" would be the preferred term

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 years ago

On a societal level absolutely self-defense

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah why not

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

And that sketchy history is medical insurance rentierism

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

I don't think it matters. Both terms have their strengths. Using the term "assassinated" elevates the victim, which works to justify the unequal allocation of resources for investigation of a rich guy's death.

Also the term "murder" doesn't imply justification, only that you killed someone on purpose.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Murder implies that it was unlawful, which is technically true, but I don't like the idea of ceding that ground.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Assassination isn't lawful either

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Citizens execution

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Using the term "assassinated" elevates the victim,

More than his role has been? Assassinated puts questions on why high-level figures like him get targeted, and these questions are uncomfortable, to say the least

Remember, not all assassinations were booed by the general public (see the fascist general Luis Carrero Blanco and see how he's SO elevated in post-Francoist Spain)