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Of course it's relevant.  But it's directly confounded with the type of business he targeted.  So it could be a racial target or it could be the type of business being targeted that was the motive and so far there is more evidence for the latter.  The bolded is scary and it is not consistent with living in a liberal society. [/quote]
The type of business he targeted is heavily associated with a negative stereotype of Asian women. This is confounded by the fact that some owners and traffickers play into that stereotype by staffing these kinds of businesses with predominantly Asian women.

[b]It's not either/or. It's complicated. [/b]You want to talk about Long's motives. Some people want to talk about the overall culture of anti-Asian bias, which is a contributing factor to why 6 Asian-American women were killed in a city with relatively few Asian-Americans. Whatever fetishes or biases that Long has are somewhat irrelevant, IMHO, to the bigger question questions of: i) why Asian-American women are associated with sex work, ii) why so many Asian women ending up working at these types of places, and iii) why someone decides that the best way to deal with their sex addiction is to commit mass murder. I think we can never know if the answer to iii might be linked to i and ii, to the extent that the people who are associated with sex work are also people who are viewed as "other" by American culture. But choosing not to talk about it is choosing to deny the potential harms of racism.[/quote]

This. People want to separate out the sexism from the racism. It is BOTH. It has a deep history.[/quote]

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