"Friedrich Engels wrote about the concept of social murder. And Brian Thompson, as the United Healthcare C.E.O., was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder. The systematized forms of violence, the structural violence of poverty, the for-profit, paywalled system of health care in this country and the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths."
"It's also worth saying there are not that many health care C.E.O.s; there are not that many industries that are as universally understood as merchants of social murder, of structural violence upon people. And it was as if the language appeared lit up within people who had never articulated it out loud."
Hasan Piker suggested that stealing should be encouraged and defended the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, labeling him as engaging in 'social murder.' Piker referenced Friedrich Engels' concept of social murder, linking it to the structural violence of the for-profit healthcare system. He noted that many Americans understand the justification for such actions due to the pain caused by this system. Jia Tolentino remarked on the limited number of healthcare CEOs and the widespread recognition of their role in societal violence, though she expressed skepticism about endorsing targeted assassinations.
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