Why the internet celebrated a killer

Luigi Mangione allegedly wrote "Deny, defend, depose" on bullets found at the murder scene of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson .

Frida Ghitis: How did a man who allegedly executed a married father of two at dawn on a New York City sidewalk become a hero? She says the media made him a symbol of American rage towards a system that denies basic treatments with an eye toward the bottom line.

Ghitis says it's a reflection of how our culture treats language and violence as morally indistinguishable.

Neither of these men should be viewed as heroes or villains, or simplistic symbols in a memetic war.

Instead, they're flawed humans who made consequential choices with varying levels of knowledge and virtue.

Fortunately, political violence is still unpopular with the majority of Americans , but it only takes a small and determined minority to wreak havoc.