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Multiple women murdered in Atlanta

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PotholeHellhole · 17/03/2021 03:08

I've just come across this:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-least-four-asian-women-shot-dead-at-two-day-spas-in-atlanta/ar-BB1eEUq4

But the update suggests six Asian women across multiple locations, plus one white woman and a white man. I'm not sure that Asian in the US means the same ethnicity it does here, but regardless, that's women of a particular group targeted. It can't be a coincidence.

This is horrendous.

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HermitsLife · 17/03/2021 17:49

Thankss for sharing that SimplyBeyond what a disgusting man.

ScoobyCat · 17/03/2021 17:41

Asian hate crimes have increased by 115% in the States in the last year

I had no idea about the huge increase in hate crimes, which seems particularly nasty coming off the back of a year where most people are pleading to “be less racist”

Recently an 89 year old Chinese woman was slapped and set on fire in Brooklyn

what a despicable thing to do to a fellow human, particularly a vulnerable one, why has this not been more widely reported ??

334bu · 17/03/2021 17:41

Interesting twist in that article downplaying racial aspect and totally ignoring hatred of women by changing emphasis to his hatred of his own sex addiction.

toffeebutterpopcorn · 17/03/2021 17:24

I haven’t seen much of this on the press. Am I missing it? I did see a family shooting (also in the us) though so...

HermitsLife · 17/03/2021 17:24

@Ihaventgottimeforthis

My first thought was incel with a double dose of racism & trumpism.
Yes definitely.
Juliesipadwillcallyouback · 17/03/2021 17:18

My first thought was incel with a double dose of racism & trumpism.

Yep, a triple whammy. Those poor women Sad

HermitsLife · 17/03/2021 17:07

This is awful. Just tragic. Those poor women 💐

SimonJT · 17/03/2021 17:06

Asian hate crimes have increased by 115% in the States in the last year.

Recently an 89 year old Chinese woman was slapped and set on fire in Brooklyn.

SunsetBeetch · 17/03/2021 17:00

@MrsTerryPratchett

I'd have thought the BBC would understand intersectionality.

No one appears to. Not Biden, not the police chief, not the civil rights lawyers...

No, not in the real sense of the word.

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/03/2021 13:55

I'd have thought the BBC would understand intersectionality.

No one appears to. Not Biden, not the police chief, not the civil rights lawyers...

ErrolTheDragon · 17/03/2021 13:46

@YetAnotherSpartacus

The victims were women, Asian and (it seems) likely to be engaged in selling sex commercially. There's a lot going on there :(

Flowers

I'd have thought the BBC would understand intersectionality.

Awful crime.Sad

MrsTerryPratchett · 17/03/2021 13:41

The article on the BBC has changed to include many references to various men (when the sex of the commenter is either given or implied) wanting to offer help and support to the Korean community. Or the Asian American community. Great. Where is the support and protection offered to maginalised women working in massage parlours? Not even a consideration. FFS.

When I've worked with sex workers, there are attacks on them every day. No support there.

Wrongsideofhistorymyarse · 17/03/2021 09:21

Those poor women.

StillFemale · 17/03/2021 09:18

Those poor women

Catslovepies · 17/03/2021 08:55

I grew up in Atlanta. These kinds of massage parlours were widely known as being thinly veiled brothels and were always staffed by Asian women who I've always thought were likely to be trafficked. The police always turned a blind eye for some reason. The Bible belt is a very strange place. It's an awful tragedy but whether the murderer was targeting Asian women or sex workers is unclear to me at this point. Either way absolutely horrible.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 17/03/2021 08:50

I think many of the women were Korean.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 17/03/2021 08:49

The victims were women, Asian and (it seems) likely to be engaged in selling sex commercially. There's a lot going on there :(

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MorrisZapp · 17/03/2021 08:44

Another day, another shooting rampage in America. Heartbreaking and so utterly pointless.

Ihaventgottimeforthis · 17/03/2021 08:40

I still have this article from earlier this month in my mind...

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/03/incel-movement-terror-threat-canada

WarriorN · 17/03/2021 08:38

He drove a fair way from one spa to two more (or vice versa).

There's deliberate targeting of those places for some reason.

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PotholeHellhole · 17/03/2021 08:35

Yep. If you were a racist gynephobic bastard who wanted to kill Chinese women, where might you go? Oh look, he went to three of those, one after the other. Fancy that.

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toffeebutterpopcorn · 17/03/2021 08:29

@Ihaventgottimeforthis

My first thought was incel with a double dose of racism & trumpism.
Me too. BBC suggested it could be race. But all women? What are the odds...
Ihaventgottimeforthis · 17/03/2021 08:14

My first thought was incel with a double dose of racism & trumpism.

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PotholeHellhole · 17/03/2021 08:11

What, commentators refusing to address that women are targeted for violent crime on the basis of their sex? Must be a day ending in -y.

It's clearly a mass murder motivated by racial hatred, but that's not the only factor. It's almost like women from ethnic minority backgrounds have to deal with multiple types of discrimination or something...

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