This episode offers an audio version of “<a href= "https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/23/sacrificial-violence-and-retribution-comparing-the-killings-of-jordan-neely-and-brian-thompson">Sacrificial Violence and Retribution</a>,” exploring the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contending in our society today. {November 22, 2024} -------SHOW NOTES------   <ul> <li>Table of Contents <ul> <li>Introduction {0:30}</li> <li>Sacrificial Violence {3:18}</li> <li>Retribution? {8:35}</li> <li>Beyond Martyrdom {14:11}</li> </ul> </li> <li> This episode offers an audio version of “<a href= "https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/23/sacrificial-violence-and-retribution-comparing-the-killings-of-jordan-neely-and-brian-thompson">Sacrificial Violence and Retribution</a>,” published by CrimethInc. on December 23, 2024. The article version includes a variety of hyperlinks providing citations for the claims made herein. </li> <li> To get deeper into René Girard’s analysis of sacrificial violence, you can read the first chapter of his book Violence and the Sacred <a href= "https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781472529251_A24068167/preview-9781472529251_A24068167.pdf"> here</a>. </li> <li> You can read an incomplete roundup of various responses to the shooting of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, <a href= "https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/23/sacrificial-violence-and-retribution-comparing-the-killings-of-jordan-neely-and-brian-thompson#appendix"> here</a>. In <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3rdcEx2_WI">this news clip</a>, you can see a representative speaking on CNN on behalf of a fundraising campaign in support of Luigi Mangione’s legal defense. You can read a discussion of the causes of the anger directed at insurance executives <a href= "https://www.usermag.co/p/yes-we-want-insurance-executives">here</a>. You can read some statistics about gun violence in the United States in general <a href= "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081">here</a>. </li> <li> For information about how much damage mass deportations are likely to inflict on the United States economy—not to mention the lives of millions of families—start <a href= "https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation"> here</a>. To learn more about why people travel to the United States without documents and what role they play in the United States economy, read our book, <a href= "https://crimethinc.com/books/no-wall-they-can-build">No Wall They Can Build</a>. </li> <li> Finally, for a further discussion of revenge and political violence, you could read an earlier article of ours, “<a href= "https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too">Against the Logic of the Guillotine</a>.” </li> </ul>

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