J.P. Hill reflecting on the murder of Brian Thompson and everything thats come after
As the search for the killer unfolds, what will continue simultaneously is the debate, the discourse, the conversation around Thompson’s killing. The single most helpful concept informing my thought process might be a little unexpected, it’s the Ruth Wilson Gilmore line: “Where life is precious, life is precious.” And where it’s not, it’s not. I’m writing to you today less about the murder of Brian Thompson and more about the response. Because this seeming assassination, cold and calculated though it was, reveals far less than the millions of responses it elicited. Regardless of whether or not the killer is found, and his full motive revealed, what we can grapple with right here and now are the shrugs, the celebrations, the remonstrances, and more. And they happen to reveal the deep and widening schism fracturing the structure of society.
