8 Dead In Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings

[sweetspot]

I didn't mean any disrespect. But I can see how the way I wrote it can come off as insensitive.
From the reports so far: The police has not confirmed it as a hate crime yet. On an interview on CNN today with one of the victims families, the family member didn't say it was hate crime for sure, said "time will tell". We also know the killer has frequented these places before and potentially knew the women there. Can we say with certainty at this point that he hated asian women or was attracted to them? The family also said the spa is not for sex, but people often asked for sexual services, could it be that the killer got into an argument about the service after spending 1hr in the spa? We don't know yet. It's a possibility that the killer is into asian women, but carried out the brutal murders over some other issue, that's what I meant, I know I should've worded it better.

 

[2fast2slow]

i did not think you meant disrespect, i understood what you were trying to say...

This is a complicated issue. He clearly was a regular patron of amps. His appreciation turned to hate. He obviously has mental health issues. What he did is irrationnal and will never have a good explanation. I don't belieive this was ideological or political hatred. ''Just'' a crazy guy's warped, revengeful hatred. Fucking sad.

 

[CaptRenault]

Writer Heather Mac Donald examines the false narrative that the Atlanta massage parlor killer was motivated by hatred of Asians:

Race and False Hate Crime Narratives

Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”

quillette.com

The reaction to the mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado, and Atlanta, Georgia, over the last week has revealed how invested the Democratic establishment is in one all-powerful narrative. Both shootings produced an immediate response from the media, Democratic politicians, and activists—that the slaughters were the result of white supremacy and that white Americans are the biggest threat facing the US. That interpretation was reached, in the case of the Boulder shooting, on the slimmest of evidence, and in the case of the Atlanta shooting, in the face of contradictory facts.

...the false narrative about the Atlanta spa shootings still has legs. It represents a double lie—first, that the massacre was the product of Trump-inspired xenophobic hatred, and second, that whites are the biggest perpetrators of violence against Asians. The most striking aspect of these untruths is the fact that they were fabricated in plain sight and in open defiance of reality. Given the enduring hold of the Atlanta story on mainstream discourse, it is worth examining in some detail...