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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Hypocrisy and denial around things sex-related, who knew
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Feel like it’s the context of rising asian hate crimes over the last year that did it
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Agenda keep the fear going
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Crimes against sex workers are not soon to be the topic of any real debate. No sexy narrative in "prostitutes have always been victims of vile crimes, and need legal protection and compassion". Plus it's not inborn, so you need a spine to publicly defend that.
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was gonna tweet this exact thing this morning tbh.
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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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