Multiple women murdered in Atlanta

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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.

It's an atrocity. There is no doubt about that. But to assume it's targeted against women and race is a bit of a leap. I personally see this as the same as a mall or school shooting. Indiscriminate. Wicked, vile and just inexcusable.

Generally, and I've no idea here, 'Asian' is probably SE Asian or Chinese women in the US. And most news reports are talking about 'massage parlours' which may well mean brothels.

There's a lot of additional racism towards Asian Americans at the moment plus the obvious misogyny.

@fairydustandpixies

It's an atrocity. There is no doubt about that. But to assume it's targeted against women and race is a bit of a leap. I personally see this as the same as a mall or school shooting. Indiscriminate. Wicked, vile and just inexcusable.

Well he chose somewhere called Young's Asian Massage so it's hardly Miss Marple level deduction.

Ah. So Trump's despicable insistence on using "China Virus" for Covid could have been a factor.

Could be an Incel. Maybe snubbed on a dating site.....

Seems a "coincidence" it's massage parlours where Asian women work.

Whatever. I'm just so sick of women being targets for male misogyny EVERY FUCKIND DAY!!

Massage parlours? If people defend him because those women weren't the right kind of victim, I will go to the middle of my nearest park and just scream for an hour.

Those poor women.

This is awful.

There is an association with spas and Asian women in the US - as in they are likely to be working there - I suspect the Asian women murdered were employees rather than clients. It does seem racially-motivated. AND FUCKING HORRIBLE.

American Republican Senators allowed these people to continue to feel empowered by refusing to impeach the orange dipshit.

This is what they do. It's what they keep doing. White supremacy, misogyny, fascism. I hope they charge him as a domestic terrorist.

This is horrific, those poor women.

And the bbc are choosing a story about Uber as more important than murdered women.

Atlanta shootings: Asian women among eight killed at three spas www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56424616

And everyone including the BBC is talking about race and ethnicity but not about sex. When both are fairly likely to be a factor, particularly if the women are sex workers. Misogynistic men target them especially.

I noticed that

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...

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

@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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think many of the women were Korean.

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.

Those poor women

Those poor women.

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.

@YetAnotherSpartacus

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

I'd have thought the BBC would understand intersectionality.

Awful crime.