The massage-parlor attack was (I am given to understand) blatantly an attack on sex workers, not an attack on Asians. Is the media narrative about erasing sex work? Or is it that the new racism cannot conceive of any relevant fact about a group of people other than their race?
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I've had some people tell me that this is justified because "being a sex worker is a choice, being asian isn't"
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Posting hot takes to Twitter is a "choice". Wearing a short skirt to get higher tips while you bus tables at a restaurant to pay off your student loans is a "job". Nobody gets to call that a "choice" until Basic Income not only exists, but has gone pretty darned high.
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I mean, separately from that, I'd have some severe fundamental disagreements with anybody who thought that becoming a Companion in the age of Basic Income merited a death sentence, but we could at least say that it had been more like a choice and less like a job.
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I think there may be additional complexity here (I am not taking a side): I can imagine the debate:
“but if we call out the sex-worker narrative, will we be called out for sexualization?”
From a game theory POV, seems like standard news took the least risky story.
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Okay I probably hate both of your perspectives (just guessing with Aella) and am once more saying "yeah that person is kinda racist" to myself but that is objectively worse.
Assuming that an Asian person who works in a massage parlor is a sex worker is pretty offensive BTW.
Becoming a cop is a choice in the same sense. Imagine a person killed eight cops, six of whom happened to be Hispanic, and claimed afterwards it was because he hated cops. Would the media be saying “it was a race-based actually because becoming a cop is a choice”? Makes no sense.