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21 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I'm sorry I'm still not over the massage parlor shootings. This guy explicitly targeted sex workers, both his stated motive and every piece of evidence points to this, yet the discourse is almost entirely about general anti-Asian hate crimes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atla…
It's infuriating. Sex workers are marginalized by society, prohibited from financial services, put in literal jail, often don't have another choice of employment, and when they get slaughtered, what happens? People focus on another common factor and pretend it was due to THAT.
I am really enraged. Absolutely furious. Even if asian-ness *was* a factor, which it easily might not have been (not all killed were asian, asians tend to populate easily-accessible massage parlors, and he could have easily targeted non-sex-work asians),
then the dominant discussion here should *still* be about sex workers.
I am really stunned to the degree that the entire world doesn't give a shit about sex workers and wants to redirect everything into race. This is just another, horrible notch in my doubt of racism discourse.
I have Asians on my FB who would never dream of doing sex work, and aren't at risk of going to jail or bearing the social stigma, posting about how afraid they are now because of the shootings. And I'm sitting here as a sex worker like... wait why are *you* the one who's afraid?

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20 Mar
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As a general rule, I assume that racism is probably not a motivation for most things.
Not that it *can't* be, only that it's culturally inflated to the point where I automatically adjust downwards.
There's *lots* of other often-worse motivations for things that aren't racism.
Like, I think a lot of what's perceived as racism would be more accurately described as:
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Lots of ppl hate sex workers, which sometimes tempts me to underplay the negative aspects of my job - stuff they'd use to reinforce their position.
But me being dishonest about my reality also reinforces them. I have much more hope in persistent, nuanced honesty.
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