I'm still bitter about the Atlanta 2021 massage parlor shootings, which you probably remember as being widely reported as an anti-asian hate crime despite all the evidence:
Why can it not be both? They are anti-Asian because he was attracted to these Asian massage parlor workers to the point of “sex addiction”, pointed to them as sources of his sexual temptation, and then murdered them. I see it as anti-Asian and anti-sex worker.
But that’s exactly my point…the racial and sexual aspect are so closely intertwined in this case. You can’t separate his desire and hate for these women who were both Asian and sex workers. He was a repeat client of Asian sex workers when he could have seen non-Asian SWs.
An unhinged man, personally wronged by a taxi driver, shoots several taxi drivers. He explicitly states that taxis are an abomination.
Most of the taxi drivers he shoots are middle-eastern, the predominant ethnicity of taxi drivers in his area.
You'd view him motivated by: