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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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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there's no evidence they were sex workers yet-- just that he thought they were