Thank you for writing this - excellent…. As someone who works with people with mental illness, Jordan’s murder is particularly painful to me - I keep going over scenarios in my head - if someone else - anyone with compassion in their heart instead of fear - had been there that day. Prayers for his father 😞
Thank you for helping those with mental illness. We are so often othered. What enrages me is the bystanders who not one apparently stood up for Jordan. When it’s defending the oppressed we are supposed to speak up. Come on nyc!!! wtf
"So every time anyone applauds the murder of the homeless, an attack on migrants, or any other act targeting the oppressed, they in fact further the oppression of us all."
The entire system of American power is structured on oppression of the many by the few.
So well done. The thing that bothers me most about jordan is the bystanders that apparently said nothing. Did we learn nothing from 2020 and BLM? This is basically what I encountered when the police harassed and tried to arrest a black girl for fare jumping and I was the sole person to stop and film. Like wtf people??! We survive together.
“The Instagram posts from nut bag people, people celebrating. This is a sickness” well then maybe if it’s a “sickness,” those “nut bag people” should get health insurance coverage, huh?
With fascists every accusation is a confession. They're the true degenerates, celebrating a mass murdering mega-millionaire while promoting more killings of the victims of the corporate machine.
And who gets to bomb and use people as an outdoor lab experiment, and who is labeled a terrorist? I can hear Leonard Cohen's Who by fire...who in the light of day?
Thank you. 😊 That quote that says something like, ‘being well in an insanely sick society is its own sickness’ comes to mind. I’ve never quite understood how folks can’t wrap their heads around how ‘different/loud/erratic’ they may act if they didn’t have housing/food/support and were treated more like animals than not.
I also think about how this affects many with autism. 'Different, loud, and erratic' is just normal. I have a nephew with autism. His mother is ardently pro-cop and I fear that one day those worlds will collide. He's not small and now that he's reached adulthood it's not far-fetched to think that he could be seen as a threat. We really need better ways of understanding and helping people.
I love what you write about & HOW you write about it. It gives me hope. I feel like I’m running out of time to make changes in people. It’s hard. I haven’t given up. I don’t understand why this country elected a criminal to our highest office again. A man who hates leading people with an agenda of hate. I worry that it will take the inflicting of a lot of pain before a great awakening. I’m 58 & I may not survive. I will go down fighting. I lived 6 blocks from where Eric Garner was lynched. I will go down fighting.
"So every time anyone applauds the murder of the homeless, an attack on migrants, or any other act targeting the oppressed, they in fact further the oppression of us all."
Felt, JP. Everytime my mom asks about how much money I gave to a homeless man that I passed by, she's adding fuel to the screaming fire in me that this is wrong. The world's gone wrong. Don't let the madness go unaddressed, FIGHT!
Great column. We're now at a place where some human life is devalued to a point in which some feel empowered to murder in the name of self defense despite the absence of even a trace of a lethal threat. The riders on that subway train were not in danger. And what real, imminent threat do thousands of Palestinian children pose to anybody? And yet their murderers face no justice. I know two things: The UHC CEO threatened and destroyed the lives of more humans than Jordan Neely ever could and, as a daily NYC subway rider, I am much more fearful of commuting with Daniel Penny than I ever was with Jordan Neely.
No question to me that the ruling class is going to do everything they can to “make an example” out of Luigi for fear of more people targeting them. But I hope this will backfire and put even more attention on the injustices they carry out on a daily basis.
Thanks, Joshua, for showing us clearly where the values of the ruling class lie.
"All of this vile hypocrisy, from Ingram and the Post and everyone else preaching that Mangione is the devil incarnate while Penny is a white knight, is obvious. It’s so glaring and disturbing that it can distract us from the bigger move that the right is making. These fascist propagandists are trying hard to shift the Overton window and drag us viciously and violently back through time, to a place where a white man murdering a Black one is widely accepted and even applauded. They’re trying to take us to a place where the homeless are expendable, where poverty is explicitly and openly a death sentence, where fascist vigilantism is celebrated."
I am a skeletally thin woman with almost no self-defense capabilities. People have screamed in my face on the subway (for having tattoos, for not following their religion, for not buying their candy, whatever) and the worst thing I ever did in response was report it to the MBTA authorities.
Very well written. You know that the MSM is part of the problem and are part of the capitalist establishment. Of course they're going to tell people that up is down & down is up. That's their sole purpose... disinformation and propaganda.
Penny is still a murderer. Yes, he was acquitted but he's still a cold-blooded murderer. There's nothing heroic about choking a helpless person to death.
The fact that the MSM has paralleled Penny to Mangione is a pathetic distraction. Stop looking at the reason Mangione shot the CEO. Now the MSM intends to make Mangione a terrorist.
The truth is that the greedy people are scared to death. They think they can play life and death games with no consequences. Mangione has touched countless people in America with his actions. Like you said these things go both ways.
BTW when Mr Neely died I wrote a Substack post. People read it but no one commented or shared... It speaks volumes about how we view things in the US. I'm attaching a link below.
Thank you for writing this - excellent…. As someone who works with people with mental illness, Jordan’s murder is particularly painful to me - I keep going over scenarios in my head - if someone else - anyone with compassion in their heart instead of fear - had been there that day. Prayers for his father 😞
Thank you for helping those with mental illness. We are so often othered. What enrages me is the bystanders who not one apparently stood up for Jordan. When it’s defending the oppressed we are supposed to speak up. Come on nyc!!! wtf
Agree with you 💯
"So every time anyone applauds the murder of the homeless, an attack on migrants, or any other act targeting the oppressed, they in fact further the oppression of us all."
The entire system of American power is structured on oppression of the many by the few.
🎯
So well done. The thing that bothers me most about jordan is the bystanders that apparently said nothing. Did we learn nothing from 2020 and BLM? This is basically what I encountered when the police harassed and tried to arrest a black girl for fare jumping and I was the sole person to stop and film. Like wtf people??! We survive together.
“The Instagram posts from nut bag people, people celebrating. This is a sickness” well then maybe if it’s a “sickness,” those “nut bag people” should get health insurance coverage, huh?
With fascists every accusation is a confession. They're the true degenerates, celebrating a mass murdering mega-millionaire while promoting more killings of the victims of the corporate machine.
And who gets to bomb and use people as an outdoor lab experiment, and who is labeled a terrorist? I can hear Leonard Cohen's Who by fire...who in the light of day?
Thank you. 😊 That quote that says something like, ‘being well in an insanely sick society is its own sickness’ comes to mind. I’ve never quite understood how folks can’t wrap their heads around how ‘different/loud/erratic’ they may act if they didn’t have housing/food/support and were treated more like animals than not.
I also think about how this affects many with autism. 'Different, loud, and erratic' is just normal. I have a nephew with autism. His mother is ardently pro-cop and I fear that one day those worlds will collide. He's not small and now that he's reached adulthood it's not far-fetched to think that he could be seen as a threat. We really need better ways of understanding and helping people.
I love what you write about & HOW you write about it. It gives me hope. I feel like I’m running out of time to make changes in people. It’s hard. I haven’t given up. I don’t understand why this country elected a criminal to our highest office again. A man who hates leading people with an agenda of hate. I worry that it will take the inflicting of a lot of pain before a great awakening. I’m 58 & I may not survive. I will go down fighting. I lived 6 blocks from where Eric Garner was lynched. I will go down fighting.
Me too. What the hell else do we have to live for, if not for that?
"So every time anyone applauds the murder of the homeless, an attack on migrants, or any other act targeting the oppressed, they in fact further the oppression of us all."
Felt, JP. Everytime my mom asks about how much money I gave to a homeless man that I passed by, she's adding fuel to the screaming fire in me that this is wrong. The world's gone wrong. Don't let the madness go unaddressed, FIGHT!
Great column. We're now at a place where some human life is devalued to a point in which some feel empowered to murder in the name of self defense despite the absence of even a trace of a lethal threat. The riders on that subway train were not in danger. And what real, imminent threat do thousands of Palestinian children pose to anybody? And yet their murderers face no justice. I know two things: The UHC CEO threatened and destroyed the lives of more humans than Jordan Neely ever could and, as a daily NYC subway rider, I am much more fearful of commuting with Daniel Penny than I ever was with Jordan Neely.
"Hurt feelings" is literally justification for murder now on the right. They're such fragile, toxic little snowflakes.
🙏🏼💓💓
The question 'Who Gets To Kill' is inextricably linked to the question, 'Who Deserves To Be Killed, Who Deserves To Live'.
No question to me that the ruling class is going to do everything they can to “make an example” out of Luigi for fear of more people targeting them. But I hope this will backfire and put even more attention on the injustices they carry out on a daily basis.
Thanks, Joshua, for showing us clearly where the values of the ruling class lie.
"All of this vile hypocrisy, from Ingram and the Post and everyone else preaching that Mangione is the devil incarnate while Penny is a white knight, is obvious. It’s so glaring and disturbing that it can distract us from the bigger move that the right is making. These fascist propagandists are trying hard to shift the Overton window and drag us viciously and violently back through time, to a place where a white man murdering a Black one is widely accepted and even applauded. They’re trying to take us to a place where the homeless are expendable, where poverty is explicitly and openly a death sentence, where fascist vigilantism is celebrated."
I am a skeletally thin woman with almost no self-defense capabilities. People have screamed in my face on the subway (for having tattoos, for not following their religion, for not buying their candy, whatever) and the worst thing I ever did in response was report it to the MBTA authorities.
I'm 60, I remember the Bernhard Goetz acquittal. Sadly, Daniel Penny's acquittal was entirely expected.
There are millions of New Yorkers who have a hysteric fear of 'The Other' - the homeless, mentally ill, ethnic minorities.
They will always encourage a Bernie Goetz, a Daniel Penny.
The fascists aren't just the sycophants around Trump, they're everywhere in every town in America.
Very well written. You know that the MSM is part of the problem and are part of the capitalist establishment. Of course they're going to tell people that up is down & down is up. That's their sole purpose... disinformation and propaganda.
Penny is still a murderer. Yes, he was acquitted but he's still a cold-blooded murderer. There's nothing heroic about choking a helpless person to death.
The fact that the MSM has paralleled Penny to Mangione is a pathetic distraction. Stop looking at the reason Mangione shot the CEO. Now the MSM intends to make Mangione a terrorist.
The truth is that the greedy people are scared to death. They think they can play life and death games with no consequences. Mangione has touched countless people in America with his actions. Like you said these things go both ways.
BTW when Mr Neely died I wrote a Substack post. People read it but no one commented or shared... It speaks volumes about how we view things in the US. I'm attaching a link below.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thereawakening/p/from-the-headlines-an-unrighteous?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3stmk