Reminder that the atlanta shooter was:
*very religious, spent time in religious treatment center for sex addiction
*had a history of 'relapsing' by visiting sex workers
*addicted to porn
*said he did shooting because of his sex addiction
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*had visited 2 of the parlors for sex before
*which had also been the site for historical prostitution arrests
*he said he targeted them to 'help' others with sex addiction and 'eliminate the temptation'
*stated that his motivation was not racial, it was because of sex
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He explicitly targeted a marginalized group who's subject to arrests, poor mental health support, disproportionate violence, and exclusion from financial services.
Shouldn't the dominant media narrative be solidarity with sex workers?
Did you even know they were sex workers?
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It's almost like his natural drive to reproduce was used against him to cause extreme guilt.
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Honestly, this sounds cynical. But journalists in America are very much aware what’s going to get more clicks... ie a better outcome for them, and it’s race. Race has been the pseudo big issue to focus on above everything else in America for a long time. Maybe I’m wrong 🤷♂️
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It has more to do with the media's aversion to painting sex workers in a sympathetic light. Western puritanical thought wins out over baring public sympathy towards those that were murdered. If the media can't talk about sex, it must be about race. When it was really about both.
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"Sex addiction" the go to excuse to lessen punishments. Whether they murdered, raped, or both. "Its not me its a 3rd party illness I had no control over"
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