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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why am I shocked that people cannot wrap their minds around the [b]obvious fact [/b]that the murdered were targeted because they were both Asian and women? People use the excuse that he went there because he had been a client there before as an excuse? Why do you think he felt like he could take sexual advantage of Asian women in the first place? He was not suddenly racially motivated, he was racially motivated all along.
I am worried about the way in which this investigation will run. The white police officers will find Asian porn on his computers, no doubt, but then not include it as evidence for his racist motivations. They’ll come up with some convoluted excuse for why it doesn’t count as Asian, but just misogynistic. Or they’ll “interview” him and accept that he wasn’t racist, well, because he said so! [/quote]

[b]Why are you so worried about this? [/b] Do you consider frequenting Asian businesses exploiting Asians?  The women who have chosen to perform extra services to massage are either doing so willingly for extra money or are trafficked, in which case the owners and traffickers are the exploiters. How are you so sure he had an Asian fetish?  What if these businesses were the only clean places he could get sexual services (as the roommate reported)?  [b]You seem to want to reinforce or normalize racial stereotypes by constantly repeating them while you admit you are *assuming* he had these predilections. [/b]

It is not obvious that these were the reasons at all.  It's possible and certainly a reasonable hunch worth looking into, but we are muddying the waters by insisting something is true without concrete evidence.  Maybe you'll get your evidence.  But you need to ask yourself why it's so important to you, why you are so worried, and what this all means to you.  [/quote]

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Oh good Lord, not the 'talking about race is racist' old trick that white conservatives love to whip out when it's convenient for themselves.

I hope Asian Americans, particularly the ones that voted for Trump, are seeing the pretzel some white people are twisting themselves into to not make this a race-based hate crime. [/quote]

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