![]() Is it enough to call for further investigation into a possible racial motive? Yes.Įveryone starts theorizing about why it's potentially rooted in misogyny Is that enough to determine racial motive? No, and it obviously is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt, which is what sustaining a conviction requires. The shooter targeted women who he perceived as sex workers, and he targeted Asian American owned businesses. Investigations begin with incomplete evidence. It's a leap, but let's not go Even Knievel just yet. It's an insanely hugely leap to determine that these shootings were a result of those stereotypes There is a clear connection, and there is no reason NOT to talk about it. Or something like Orlando, or Christchurch, or Pittsburgh, all motivated in part by an irrational hatred. Instead of waving these very real problems away we need to talk about it, the way how in this case, the stereotypes mentioned above can contribute to a massacre like this, in three separate asian spas where 6 asian women died. We need to accept that to many people the world is not a fair place, people to get killed for being Asian, Black, a woman, a jew, a muslim. The same goes for when a woman is killed, it could be misogynistic. If a non-sequitur means no reason at all to connect two things, this would not be one.Īnd it’s kind of like, when a black man is killed, one motive could be race related. There had been a very real rise in anti-Asian sentiment and the killer was said to be a ‘sex-addict’ meaning he had some sexual motive as well. I do not believe that connecting the shootings to a combination of misogyny and racism is a non-sequitur. ![]() First of all, during these genocides the women were raped and tortured and children were murdered as well (Reading about Srebrenica made me sick) so I think it is wrong to call that misandrist since it is not a crime against specifically men, but a whole race. “Given the sexual stereotypes associated with Asian women in this country (…) it is very difficult to dismiss the racial question,” added Kimmy Yam, a reporter for NBC News.You make the argument that when mostly women are victims, it is false to blame misogyny, and then compare it to instances of genocide where only men were murdered. Without necessarily brandishing this word, which may seem obscure, many commentators have declined the concept. The shooter “could have attacked strip clubs, porn video shops or sex shops,” said Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse. “But he did not do it.” Instead, she noted, “he chose businesses whose employees are women, but not only: they are also of Asian origin, poorly paid and in a profession subject to fantasies.” Since Tuesday, it has been brought back to the fore. “The murderous attack in Atlanta brings back a terrible truth: women are too often victims of the rage of men,” tweeted the anti-racism association ADL, referring to an article entitled: “When women are the enemy: at the intersection of misogyny and white supremacy “. The term was theorized in 1989 by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an African-American law professor, to emphasize that discrimination can overlap. The concept gradually left university circles and, in the activist space, refers to what some call “the convergence of struggles”. Concept of intersectionalityįor her, like many others, the bloodbath in Atlanta is therefore a mixture of racism, sexism, contempt for the poor, the gun problem in the United States and mental illness. In short, it is “intersectional”. Or as the New York Times sums it up : “Racism and sexism intertwine to torment Asian-American women.” by Suzie Wong “. “They are racist because they specifically target Asian women, but they are also sexist and sexual,” she notes. The United States is torn apart with a semantic debate. A white man killed eight people in Atlanta on Tuesday, including six women of Asian descent. He swears he was not motivated by racism but by a “sexual obsession”. Since then, the qualification of the facts has divided. Were these killings misogynistic? Racists ? Or both ?īy reporting that Robert Aaron Long wanted to eliminate “the temptation” which he said represented the targeted massage parlors, the police offended more than one. “These statements refer to the perception of Asian women as sex objects,” notes Catherine Ceniza Choy, professor of ethnic studies at Berkeley University. “And that hurts.”Īsian Americans “are victims of specific” stereotypes that refer “to the fantasies of white men,” she told AFP, citing the typical example of the big-hearted prostitute, the heroine of the film “Le Monde”. ![]() The murderous attack, with the death of eight people, including six women of Asian origin, brings to the fore the notion of intersectionality in discrimination.
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