I'm feeling sad about the reaction to the recent shooting. Though the shooter specifically expressed sex worker targeted hatred, and though sex workers experience a much higher % of violence than asians, I've seen only a tiny fraction of the solidarity given to sex workers.
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Like, some solidarity to Asians, I get it - but almost all of it? Is the sex worker part here just totally invisible to people? This situation makes it really clear which groups are more likely to get public support, and which don't, and now I'm sad.
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Look at the results - count how many reference asians, and how many reference sex workers.
twitter.com/search?q=massa
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Were they actually sex workers? Is there proof of that? Massages aren't inherently sexual. And the shooter saying he was trying to get rid of temptation doesn't mean they performed sexual acts.
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Massage parlors are often sex worker establishments; the locations in question were listed on erotic review sites, and apparently he'd visited there before and specifically cited sex as a motivation.
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I can think of two reasons for the lack of references to sex workers compared to Asians. 1) There are a lot more Asians than sex workers. 2) Recent incidents of violence against Asians have heightened interests in other incidents. Doesn’t make it right, but may explain it.
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it's cause he's white
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I wonder how much is literally "talking about sex workers would be more awkward"
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Because professional categories are not demographics, no matter how hard you try.
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They weren’t confirmed sex workers, it would be irresponsible reporting to make a headline highlighting the sex work aspect, if that even was a thing at these massage parlors.
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