The real estate mogul and his two daughters were shot, while his wife was assaulted with a hammer, in an attack that has shocked the city.
  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    11 hours ago

    If this had happened in my neighborhood, or most of yours, none of us would now be hearing about it.

    Yet if it’s unconscionable for some, it’s unconscionable for all.

    As much as I regret that anyone goes through something like this, you cannot have a discussion about crime without also having a discussion about wealth inequality and poverty.

    But they’re only talking about the first part, so . . . I hate to say it, but zero fucks given. They can take care of themselves. Anyone living in Bridle Path, Toronto with Drake and Celine Dion is not going to have the same struggle as a working person who has inadequate or no health insurance but still has bills to pay and a family to feed in the aftermath of an attack like this.

    I would not wish it on them, but these ultra-rich folks ARE the problem that created the circumstances – the poverty and wealth inequality – that led to their own attack. And as such, they will have police, government, and medical lined up around the block to help them through this.

    They don’t need me to care too.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    10 hours ago

    I love that they mentioned this motherfucker’s a CEO. (And an uber bastardly real estate CEO at that.) How I think about this crime is 100% going to be different if it’s a super-rich wealthy bastard rather than a poor, single mother or a facsimile of that.

    Reminds me of that time when an outspoken gun advocate took a bullet to the neck.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      11 minutes ago

      I think it’d be great if we lived in a world where violence wasn’t required, and we could, but we don’t. Ideally an actual just justice system would handle things so individuals don’t need to use violence, but it isn’t just.

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      31·
      13 hours ago

      Maybe if they didn’t flaunt their wealth like that, people wouldn’t rob them.

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    371·
    14 hours ago

    Unfortunately this was a robbery. So it’s not an eat the rich situation.

    The irony of this statement

    “No family should ever have to experience this.”
    Morton said his family was reeling from "the trauma of experiencing something so horrific in the one place where everyone should feel safest: their own home“

    At least this pig has a home. No one is likely to come take it from him or price him out of it.

    I’d love to say I don’t condone violence to the families of these people but honestly there’s a little of me says they are happy to ride on the coattails of the profit…so by extension are complicit.

    As for the CEO himself what’s the chances he uses this event to reflect, I doubt it he will just buy more security.

    • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.auEnglish
      23·
      13 hours ago

      looks like he is the CEO of Mac Group, which is a huge developer across the US. They built a lot of subdivision style developments, run a lot of HOA’s, and own lots of rentals across the country.

      So, yeah guillotine fodder