Wesley LePatner was a senior managing director at Blackstone...was shot and killed in the lobby of her midtown Manhattan workplace, one of four victims of Shane Tamura’s murder spree...
But within hours, it was clear that his motive was irrelevant to the hordes now celebrating LePatner’s execution online.
Across Reddit, Facebook, X, and other social media platforms, users—many anonymous, and some displaying transgender or Palestinian flag emojis—seized on the executive’s death as symbolic retribution...
- The message was unmistakable: her death was something to relish...
- A political movement is testing its power. Call it Luigism.
- Invoking Luigi Mangione—the Ivy League–educated radical who allegedly assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December—Luigism is the idea that violence is a legitimate response to the perceived injustices of capitalism.
If the victim represents wealth, whiteness, pro-Israel Judaism, or institutional power, the killing can be framed as justified, or even glamorous...
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