{"id":28463,"date":"2024-12-15T19:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/rage-race-and-good-looks-the-forces-behind-the-lionization-of-a-murder-suspect\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:24:49","slug":"rage-race-and-good-looks-the-forces-behind-the-lionization-of-a-murder-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/rage-race-and-good-looks-the-forces-behind-the-lionization-of-a-murder-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage, race and good looks: the forces behind the lionization of a murder suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction to Brian Thompson\u2019s killing shocked pundits but a polarized US is united in contempt for health system<\/p>\n<p>Just over a week ago no one knew who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/09\/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-arrested\">Luigi Mangione<\/a> was. After he was revealed as the alleged assassin of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/brian-thompson-shooting\">Brian Thompson<\/a>, on 4 December, he quickly became one of the most polarizing figures in American pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>To some, he\u2019s an anticapitalist arch villain. To others, he is a Marxist folk hero exacting revenge against the unchecked avarice of American medical insurance companies. To yet more, he\u2019s a damaged young man struggling with a variety of intense health issues, whose family and friends desperately tried to reach out to him after he disappeared in the weeks and months before the killing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2024\/dec\/15\/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaction to Brian Thompson\u2019s killing shocked pundits but a polarized US is united in contempt for health system Just over a week ago no one knew who Luigi Mangione was. After he was revealed as the alleged assassin of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, on 4 December, he quickly became one of the most polarizing &#8230; <a title=\"Rage, race and good looks: the forces behind the lionization of a murder suspect\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/rage-race-and-good-looks-the-forces-behind-the-lionization-of-a-murder-suspect\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rage, race and good looks: the forces behind the lionization of a murder suspect\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}