Trumps Chinese flu comments and Incels lead to violence against Asian women.
Trumps Chinese flu comments and Incels lead to violence against Asian women.
Originally posted by Klaw
So there's no evidence that racism was involved and the suspect has also said that, but of course people are turning this into a race issue.
He did shoot 6 Asian women in Asian massage parlors because he wanted to eliminate his sexual temptation he felt for them.
I don't see how that could not involve race.
Originally posted by Artol
He did shoot 6 Asian women in Asian massage parlors because he wanted to eliminate his sexual temptation he felt for them.I don't see how that could not involve race.
If you wanted to kill women, a massage parlor would be a good place to find them.
Race has nothing to do with it, it seems.
Originally posted by Artol
He did shoot 6 Asian women in Asian massage parlors because he wanted to eliminate his sexual temptation he felt for them.I don't see how that could not involve race.
Race played a role, yes. But was it a hate crime?
The reporting made it seem like the man hates asians, and would have killed any asians. Its looking like the man actually hated sex workers at massage parlors, and would have killed anyone who worked at those sex parlors.
Originally posted by cdtm
Race played a role, yes. But was it a hate crime?The reporting made it seem like the man hates asians, and would have killed any asians. Its looking like the man actually hated sex workers at massage parlors, and would have killed anyone who worked at those sex parlors.
I don't really have an opinion on how the legal system could characterize that crime in that way. I think it is pretty clear that racism played a role, particularly with Asian women the racism is more based on a sexualization of them. I do agree though that it seems like a hatred of sex workers played into it as well (not sure these women were sex workers even, maybe they just did normal massages, idk). And I mean it is also this kind of misogyny where women are responsible for the male sexual urges, which is incredibly common in the west and in Christianity particularly. Like he can't control his urges, which he views as bad, and so the women that turn him on are to blame and must be punished and eliminated.
Originally posted by Artol
I don't really have an opinion on how the legal system could characterize that crime in that way. I think it is pretty clear that racism played a role, particularly with Asian women the racism is more based on a sexualization of them. I do agree though that it seems like a hatred of sex workers played into it as well (not sure these women were sex workers even, maybe they just did normal massages, idk). And I mean it is also this kind of misogyny where women are responsible for the male sexual urges, which is incredibly common in the west and in Christianity particularly. Like he can't control his urges, which he views as bad, and so the women that turn him on are to blame and must be punished and eliminated.
They do sex stuff, that I can confirm (Don't ask)
We call massage parlors "Rub and tugs".
Personally yeah I think this is very, very likely a racist attack in part, and definitely an example of "incel terrorism".
Originally posted by ArtolGood post.
I don't really have an opinion on how the legal system could characterize that crime in that way. I think it is pretty clear that racism played a role, particularly with Asian women the racism is more based on a sexualization of them. I do agree though that it seems like a hatred of sex workers played into it as well (not sure these women were sex workers even, maybe they just did normal massages, idk). And I mean it is also this kind of misogyny where women are responsible for the male sexual urges, which is incredibly common in the west and in Christianity particularly. Like he can't control his urges, which he views as bad, and so the women that turn him on are to blame and must be punished and eliminated.
Also to note is that some of the victims were older women who worked at the parlours, who were not sex workers. So the shooter was shooting any old Asian who happened to be there.
Police reaction to the shooting was disgraceful, trying to play it off as the murderer just having a "bad day". No surprise there though really.
Reading a lot in the outset of this news story about the racism that asian americans face. That's what I get for living in my little social bubble - I'm lucky in the sense I don't have to face this kind of abuse in my community. You'd think everyone treating each other kindly would be easy enough to do