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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He had specifically posted anti Asian hate on his Facebook, which is why he the “media” was going after that. I assume He chose sex workers because they are vulnerable and for him more easy to be “disgusted with”. The discourse that ignores sex workers is dangerous. Yes.
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did you not read the list of evidence that currently exists, that i linked to in the first tweet
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I'm not actually afraid, because violence against sex workers is still pretty low. But violence against asians is even lower - the lowest out of all ethnicities in the US, afaik. If one of us was going to be afraid re: the shooting, it should be me.
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Aella, you're respected and influential. Could you be the person who starts a "solidarity with sex workers" meme that spreads? I don't think it's that people don't care about sex workers, they just like signalling political awareness, and that's easier to do with race
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At this point it’s about narrative. If you control or flip the narrative it works in your favor. Though protection of everyone and including sex workers need to happen.
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while sw's continue to live under duress, i feel so sad for those who are now needlessly afraid. what cruelty in service of absolutely nothing
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Totally agree.. This has been bothering me that media and politicians have hijacked this tragedy to push the racism narrative.
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I disagree. He drove to two separate locations to kill Asians. He wanted to kill them because Asian girls made his peepee feel funny. It's possible to have sympathy for Asians and Sex Workers.
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