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 very important that you're making these facts known. I think the cure for "mainstream media" misinformation is ultimately inherent in the problem itself, as when people see a narrative pushed when there is no cause to restrict it so narrowly, they have to wonder why.
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Without going into too many details, I work in a position which is expected to promulgate whatever cohesive media narrative is supplied. When I proffered these facts and said I thought pushing a false narrative was harmful to our credibility, you can guess what happened.