Considering this guy was not traditionally left leaning…

[u/jpotion88]

From his online footprint it seems like Luigi did not meet the mold many would have expected of a left wing revolutionary. Also considering I have been seeing a lot of “the right looks for allies, the left looks for rats”, I created a new group r/ClassConscious . It’s supposed to be a thread where we can share ideas/memes with people of different political beliefs to continue to solidify the idea of class consciousness in the minds of people who might just be waking up to it. Once people realize that one kind of oppression is wrong, they might realize that other types are wrong too (or at least that’s the idea). I can’t think of a better page to ask for help than the BtB audience. Being around here a while it seems like most people take a rational approach to the problems we face. I am not a content creator or very witty, or all that good at knowing what will grab people’s attention. So I ask you all to help me, with posting and bringing attention to the staggering wealth gap that has developed in our societies. It’s not something that matters just to the left… between Luigi and the elons bullshit, I think this has a fighting chance.

Please post anything you think will appeal to those not normally thinking about r/ClassConscious (ness) in the same way.

[u/oakfield01]

I'm sorry, but I don't see how this case is about the staggering wealth gap. Luigi Mangione came from a wealthy family in Baltimore who owns multiple country clubs. Prior to becoming an executive, Brian Thompson came from a middle class background and was a CPA.

Don't get me wrong, the wealth gap is an issue, I just don't see this story as a good way to convey that. Sure, talk about how the health insurance industry sucks with this story, but where does the wealth gap come in? Admittedly health insurance may deny care in part to make profit, but that's more classic capitalism than wealth gap.

[u/jpotion88 → u/oakfield01]

But classic capitalism=wealth gap. The further along we go, the worse it gets. The reason for the connection is that while perusing the fine conservatives and Ben Shapiro boards, I saw people on the right wing espousing very left wing views for pretty much the first time ever… without even knowing it

[u/Sans_culottez → u/jpotion88]

I think a better response in general was given by Zhou Enlai:

Zhou Enlai claimed to be a feudal class traitor in an exchange between him and Khrushchev:

Nikita Khrushchev: “I am the son of coal miners, you are the descendant of feudal mandarins. We have nothing in common.” Zhou Enlai: “Perhaps we do, we are both traitors to our class.”

As opposed to worrying about Luigi’s specific upbringing.

[u/jpotion88 → u/Sans_culottez]

I’m not focused on his upbringing. I don’t care about being a class traitor. Although that line by zhou is based. My point is that this event has brought light on a small portion of what is a much bigger problem. A lot of people reading what you just said would think “wtf is he talking about”. But the murder of a ceo who lives off the money that comes out of their paychecks and still denies claims, reached many of them in its own way. Some of them are so ready to turn their anger against the people who actually shape the system

[u/Sans_culottez → u/jpotion88]

Fair enough, I was mainly thinking about the pearl clutching liberal or those that were hoping for some leftist orthodoxy from him. Oh he listened to lex Friedman and bought into the Silicon Valley techno-Utopianism, and came from an upper class background? I don’t care, he did a working class action. Kropotkin was a prince, and was also a class traitor. I welcome more from the upper echelons.