I'm sorry I'm still not over the massage parlor shootings. This guy explicitly targeted sex workers, both his stated motive and every piece of evidence points to this, yet the discourse is almost entirely about general anti-Asian hate crimes.
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It's infuriating. Sex workers are marginalized by society, prohibited from financial services, put in literal jail, often don't have another choice of employment, and when they get slaughtered, what happens? People focus on another common factor and pretend it was due to THAT.
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I am really enraged. Absolutely furious. Even if asian-ness *was* a factor, which it easily might not have been (not all killed were asian, asians tend to populate easily-accessible massage parlors, and he could have easily targeted non-sex-work asians),
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then the dominant discussion here should *still* be about sex workers.
I am really stunned to the degree that the entire world doesn't give a shit about sex workers and wants to redirect everything into race. This is just another, horrible notch in my doubt of racism discourse.
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I have Asians on my FB who would never dream of doing sex work, and aren't at risk of going to jail or bearing the social stigma, posting about how afraid they are now because of the shootings. And I'm sitting here as a sex worker like... wait why are *you* the one who's afraid?
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Were the women sex workers or did he murder them because he thought they were sex workers? If he just assumed they were sex workers because they were Asian and working at a massage parlor, I think the race angle is relevant.
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apparently he'd frequented the places before and they were verified as locations of prostitution. So I think he knew.
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violence towards sex workers is horrible and ignored; it's a conversation we must have.
it's too early to say, *definitively*, that race was a factor in the shootings, but it's overwhelmingly likely -- why did the shooter incorrectly profile those women as sex workers?
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if u live in NYC and hate taxi driver industry and wanna make a point, and go shoot up a taxi garage at break:
"it's too early to say that immigration status was factor in the shooting, but its likely - why did the shooter incorrectly profile taxi garage ppl as taxi drivers?"
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