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mass shootings in Atlanta targeting Asian businesses

Busy little bastard. [emoji34]

Don't think I've ever seen just a "neckbeard" all on its own... not an attractive look, IMO.
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Jim_MDP said:
Busy little bastard. [emoji34]

Don't think I've ever seen just a "neckbeard" all on its own... not an attractive look, IMO.
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Yeah, I'm not at all getting why anyone would voluntarily do that. Outside of some culture signaling that is.
 
I'll place my bets on a little jerk pissed off women reject him so he went after Asian women at 3 massage parlors (spas).

And he may very well be a racist pig as well as a slimy turd.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I'll place my bets on a little jerk pissed off women reject him so he went after Asian women at 3 massage parlors (spas).

And he may very well be a racist pig as well as a slimy turd.
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Pretty much this. The human race can be so pathetic sometimes.
 
wasapi said:
Ah . . . be still my beating heart . . . (yeah).

I am wonder what group he is representing, because that is my bet.
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Looks like he is representing his mother as well as his father and uncle (who happen to be the same person).
 
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Trebuchet said:
"Kung Flu".
"Wuhan virus."
"China virus".
Etc.
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Yeah, I think we got that.
I didn't watch it, but there's a new vid the past day or two on CNN or MSNBC by Margarat Cho about Asians aren't to blame for the rash of anti-Asian violence. Timely.

I only recall it because I hadn't seen her name for a few years. [emoji4]
 
Trebuchet said:
"Kung Flu".
"Wuhan virus."
"China virus".
Etc.
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Like I said a year ago, it doesn't take much for racists to switch from "model minority" to "yellow peril" thinking. And of course, just like they didn't care about Obama's white mother, or the turban being a sikh symbol instead of a muslim one, they aren't going to stop and ask "Excuse me, but are you Chinese? I mean, if you are I'm gonna throw this acid in your face, but if you're Korean then I'm sorry for wasting your time and can I buy you a frapachino, maybe some chocolate chip cookies?"
 
Thoughts and prayers people, thoughts and prayers.

The other things to bear in mind are

  • That he is a lone nutjob and hasn't been influenced by anything said by a particular former President, right wing TV and radio or the right wing social media echo chamber
  • That he would have killed and injured just as many people if he'd been armed with a swimming pool

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IMO it's illuminating that despite the danger he clearly presented, he was captured alive. I wonder if the situation would have been different if he was black and/or homeless.
 
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The Don said:
Thoughts and prayers people, thoughts and prayers.

The other things to bear in mind are

  • That he is a lone nutjob and hasn't been influenced by anything said by a particular former President, right wing TV and radio or the right wing social media echo chamber
  • That he would have killed and injured just as many people if he'd been armed with a swimming pool
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Don't be silly. The U S has tight regulations to ensure that the mentally ill don't get weapons. There were "good people" on either side of the gun in these incidents.
 
Lothian said:
Don't be silly. The U S has tight regulations to ensure that the mentally ill don't get weapons. There were "good people" on either side of the gun in these incidents.
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Being a racist misogynist is not a mental illness.
 
I'm not saying that there is no racist motive but given the venues that were attacked I'm wondering if it's not just as likely some incel nutjob. "Massage parlours" are quite often used as a front for prostitution and he could have targeted them because of this fact, whether they actually were prostitutes or not.

He apparently didn't shoot up any asian food restaurants or bodega...
 
Arcade22 said:
I'm not saying that there is no racist motive but given the venues that were attacked I'm wondering if it's not just as likely some incel nutjob. "Massage parlours" are quite often used as a front for prostitution and he could have targeted them because of this fact, whether they actually were prostitutes or not.

He apparently didn't shoot up any asian food restaurants or bodega...
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There is very significant overlap between overt racism and vicious misogyny. It's not implausible that the victims were selected for both their race and gender.
 
I try not to judge a book based on the cover, but given the victims.... Looking at that picture it's hard not to be convinced that the guy targeted them because he's a lonely incel and/or attacked them because they are asian.
 
Arcade22 said:
I'm not saying that there is no racist motive but given the venues that were attacked I'm wondering if it's not just as likely some incel nutjob. "Massage parlours" are quite often used as a front for prostitution and he could have targeted them because of this fact, whether they actually were prostitutes or not.

He apparently didn't shoot up any asian food restaurants or bodega...
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Most Asian restaurants in the area (I'm a resident) are take-out only, often with the doors locked. They saw what was coming when Trump kept blaming China for Covid-19. That makes it difficult to target them.

Where the shooter apparently lived and started his rampage, there just aren't any bodegas. He probably just didn't think of them or know where any are.
 
wareyin said:
Most Asian restaurants in the area (I'm a resident) are take-out only, often with the doors locked. They saw what was coming when Trump kept blaming China for Covid-19. That makes it difficult to target them.

Where the shooter apparently lived and started his rampage, there just aren't any bodegas. He probably just didn't think of them or know where any are.
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It is a pity that three of them are Korean, in that case.
 
Vixen said:
It is a pity that three of them are Korean, in that case.
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If this was racially motivated (I believe it was but don't know all the facts yet), it's not like a racist can or would differentiate between Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, or any other Asian nationality.
 
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