The man says he's addicted to sex. He wanted to eliminate temptation. For that, eight people are dead. Six were Asian-American women.
It wasn't the "Wuhan Flu," then, that made 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long use a long rifle to gun down ethnically Asian women working in massage parlors. It was a case of their being attractive to a sex addict. At least this time, no one is blaming the victims.
It's ironic that this marquee case of crime against Asian-Americans is not a clear-cut example of the recent wave of white-on-Asian crimes of retaliation. It's clear that simple-minded thugs are blaming all of east Asia for the COVID19 virus. You know, the virus that's so “overblown” by liberals, and so contemptible in the eyes of the former President because it threatened to make him appear weak.
It's painful to see the random, impulsive fist strikes and stabbings inflicted on unassuming Asian-Americans, attacks that show all the discretion of a drunk windmilling at an adversary that only he can see. In reality, Asian-Americans ARE adversaries that only certain white supremacists can see. To the rest of us, they're just people walking around.
We've had clear-cut bad guys and good guys in the news these past four years. So it remains: Long is not blaming Asians for COVID19, but his fetish is as fundamentally racist as could be.
"I have been speaking about the brutality against Asian-Americans, and it's troubling," Biden said from the Oval Office. "I'll have more to say when the investigation is completed."
Kamala Harris said, "I do want to say to our Asian-American community that we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked and outraged all people."
We've been seeing white supremacists blame Asian Americans for COVID19 and attack them in retaliation. Are Long's murders the same kind of violence?
Do you think there's any hope that this incident will lead to tighter gun regulation?
Is there any way to protect Asian Americans in particular from this sudden wave of violence?
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