United Healthcare CEO shot and killed

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Thought the title for this piece was insightful "Fan Club for Suspected Shooter Is a Symptom of Burn-It-All-Down Populism" Some interesting commentary in the piece, but really just admiring the title.
 
uncgriff said:
What we do in the shadows has played on it perfectly.
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Yeah, I’ve watched that show beginning to end twice and always thought Matthew Berry created that language quirk for Lazlo. When I saw the YouTube video, it all fell into place.
 
farce© said:
That 7% number seems inconsistent with the Yes/No/Don't know numbers directly above it. or the "Total Net" number is calculated using numbers I don't see in this table.
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The total net is yes's minus no's. It basically says a small majority of the people under 45 would report the murderer and a large majority of the people over 45 would report the murderer.

It's a little cut off but it looks like people under 45 and black people are almost equally reluctant to report the white murderer. I'm a little surprised. I wouldn't have thought a young white male would have been statistically significant between blacks and whites.
 
Paine said:
Particularly the piece about provider rates that centrist pundits have latched onto in recent weeks.

jacobin.com

Blame Health Insurers for Exorbitant Health Care Costs

Since the shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, a number of pundits have claimed that the main cause of exorbitant US health care costs is overcharging by providers, not health insurance companies. The argument doesn’t hold up: insurers are mostly to blame.
jacobin.com jacobin.com
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really succinct, thanks for sharing.
 
Paine said:
For the black/white numbers, probably more to do with people’s experiences with the police/justice system if I had to guess.
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I guess. I'm just surprised. I'm sure blacks are more likely to be on the wrong side of the justice system, either fairly or unfairly, but they are also more likely to be murdered. Just surprised they are that much more likely to sympathize with the murderer.
 
4thgenheel said:
its not all necessarily sympathy.

its minding their own damn business because all too often when black folks call the police it ends up being a huge hassle and/or dangerous for them even if they've done nothing wrong.
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Once again, I guess. But we're not talking about someone selling loose cigarettes or running an unlicensed lemonade stand. We're talking about someone that murdered someone.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Once again, I guess. But we're not talking about someone selling loose cigarettes or running an unlicensed lemonade stand. We're talking about someone that murdered someone.
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this is not complicated, dude.

black folks are already very reticent to call the police and a lot of people do not see the victim as a sympathetic figure whatsoever.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
The total net is yes's minus no's. It basically says a small majority of the people under 45 would report the murderer and a large majority of the people over 45 would report the murderer.

It's a little cut off but it looks like people under 45 and black people are almost equally reluctant to report the white murderer. I'm a little surprised. I wouldn't have thought a young white male would have been statistically significant between blacks and whites.
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I’ve seen some surveys that suggest black Americans are less likely to report crime in general, ostensibly because they don’t think the police will actually do anything about it other than maybe hassle them.
 
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