All of the men — of different races, and most not rich — had the charges dropped. I wish people would stop framing the Kraft stories in such simplistic terms...
https://twitter.com/MichaelSocolow/status/1372166429156474886
The Kraft story is best understood as part of the gov't war on sex workers, period.
This crusade falls disproportionately on women, people of color, & the poor.
Asian massage parlors have been one huge target of it
But neither they *nor their clients* should be criminalized
This crusade falls disproportionately on women, people of color, & the poor.
Asian massage parlors have been one huge target of it
But neither they *nor their clients* should be criminalized
Socolow is right that the Fla. massage parlor busts & their outcomes show discrimination against Asian women in the US. But it also goes far beyond that...
And I worry that always framing the Kraft story as "rich white man" went free
1) implies that he shouldn't have, when he absolutely should have. The women just should have too.
2) suggests most men involved in this sting were rich and/or white. They weren't.
1) implies that he shouldn't have, when he absolutely should have. The women just should have too.
2) suggests most men involved in this sting were rich and/or white. They weren't.
I find that men of color and non-rich men are disproportionately affected (relative to sex work customers over all) by the government's war on sex work, and that's absolutely a problem, too.
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