Why won't people address the massage shootings as the mental health issue rather than racism?

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/atlanta-spa-attacks-mario-gonzalez.html

One of the victims' husband was handcuffed and detained for four hours. He was not allowed to see the body or take care of their children. They were customers getting a normal massage on a date night. He is Hispanic, which shouldn't matter but somehow feels like it did.

A victim's husband was treated worse and given less consideration than the mass murderer. Whether that was because the Cherokee County cops assumed the massage parlor was a prostitution front or because they assumed he was illegal it doesn't matter. That was just flat out wrong.

[Anonymous]

And now it comes out that the perpetrator was being treated for "sex addiction", most likely just looking at pornography, at an evangelical coversion therapy center one mile away from the first location.

[Anonymous]

Oh please OP.

[Anonymous]

It's a combination of racism, hard-right evangelical Christian brainwashing with violent undertones, and misogyny.

Who knew gun violence could be intersectional?!?!?


(hint: everyone except conservatives knew this)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And now it comes out that the perpetrator was being treated for "sex addiction", most likely just looking at pornography, at an evangelical coversion therapy center one mile away from the first location.

So it's actually not "mental illness." He was brainwashed by a radical form of Christianity that is infused with racism, misogyny, and violence.

He was acting quite rationally in accordance with the warped teachings of his religion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And now it comes out that the perpetrator was being treated for "sex addiction", most likely just looking at pornography, at an evangelical coversion therapy center one mile away from the first location.

Blaming 7 women for “sex addiction” is a hate crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now it comes out that the perpetrator was being treated for "sex addiction", most likely just looking at pornography, at an evangelical coversion therapy center one mile away from the first location.

So it's actually not "mental illness." He was brainwashed by a radical form of Christianity that is infused with racism, misogyny, and violence.

He was acting quite rationally in accordance with the warped teachings of his religion.

Yup.

There are no indications that it was an "Asian Massage Parlor", it appears to have been a normal massage parlor. Which would explain why he victims are almost all middle aged. His connection to the first location does not appear to be because he was a customer but rather that it was near his "treatment center". There's also no indication that he was a "sex addict" in any non-conservative evangelical sense of the term. It looks like he, and the cops, assumed it was a prostitution den and didn't wonder why the "prostitute" were 50 years old.

[Anonymous]

I think Harvey Weinstein tried to blame everything on sex addiction. I don’t think it worked cuz most sex addicts don’t go around raping and killing women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Harvey Weinstein tried to blame everything on sex addiction. I don’t think it worked cuz most sex addicts don’t go around raping and killing women.

Weinstein was at least having sex. This guy was looking at porn and occasionally masturbating. What his conservative evangelical church calls sex addiction the rest of us would call normal human behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/atlanta-spa-attacks-mario-gonzalez.html

One of the victims' husband was handcuffed and detained for four hours. He was not allowed to see the body or take care of their children. They were customers getting a normal massage on a date night. He is Hispanic, which shouldn't matter but somehow feels like it did.

A victim's husband was treated worse and given less consideration than the mass murderer. Whether that was because the Cherokee County cops assumed the massage parlor was a prostitution front or because they assumed he was illegal it doesn't matter. That was just flat out wrong.

This is terrible what he went through. But if there was any chance he was involved with the crime and they let him loose, the consequences could be bad too. So this might have just been them doing their job, unfortunate as it was.

[Anonymous]

If you qualify being evangelical as a mental illness, then sure. /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/atlanta-spa-attacks-mario-gonzalez.html

One of the victims' husband was handcuffed and detained for four hours. He was not allowed to see the body or take care of their children. They were customers getting a normal massage on a date night. He is Hispanic, which shouldn't matter but somehow feels like it did.

A victim's husband was treated worse and given less consideration than the mass murderer. Whether that was because the Cherokee County cops assumed the massage parlor was a prostitution front or because they assumed he was illegal it doesn't matter. That was just flat out wrong.

This is terrible what he went through. But if there was any chance he was involved with the crime and they let him loose, the consequences could be bad too. So this might have just been them doing their job, unfortunate as it was.

The guy was lying down on a massage table when things went down. His wife, another customer, was one of the victims. There was zero chance he was involved. If anything, he was a witness. They probably just couldn't comprehend that he was married to the victim since they were an interracial couple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now it comes out that the perpetrator was being treated for "sex addiction", most likely just looking at pornography, at an evangelical coversion therapy center one mile away from the first location.

So it's actually not "mental illness." He was brainwashed by a radical form of Christianity that is infused with racism, misogyny, and violence.

He was acting quite rationally in accordance with the warped teachings of his religion.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/atlanta-spa-attacks-mario-gonzalez.html

One of the victims' husband was handcuffed and detained for four hours. He was not allowed to see the body or take care of their children. They were customers getting a normal massage on a date night. He is Hispanic, which shouldn't matter but somehow feels like it did.

A victim's husband was treated worse and given less consideration than the mass murderer. Whether that was because the Cherokee County cops assumed the massage parlor was a prostitution front or because they assumed he was illegal it doesn't matter. That was just flat out wrong.

This is terrible what he went through. But if there was any chance he was involved with the crime and they let him loose, the consequences could be bad too. So this might have just been them doing their job, unfortunate as it was.

The guy was lying down on a massage table when things went down. His wife, another customer, was one of the victims. There was zero chance he was involved. If anything, he was a witness. They probably just couldn't comprehend that he was married to the victim since they were an interracial couple.

Terrible.

[Anonymous]

Colorado can be what happens when people start minimizing victims. With so many people in this huge country, you never know what nutjobs are out there.