The supposedly sex-addicted shooter was, according to one law enforcer, "having a bad day". Shocking. Well, his bad day just got a lot worse after killing 8 people.
In addition:
"While Baker played up the accused killer¡¯s self-proclaimed motivation to ¡°take out¡± a sexual ¡°temptation¡± by slaughtering innocent people, Asian American academics??the Washington?Post?that these sentiments are consistent with stereotypes toward Asian women that are common in the United States. ¡°The shooter said it wasn¡¯t racially motivated, but on the other hand, he¡¯s going specifically to these spas where Asian women work precisely to serve the sexual fantasies of white males,¡± said Stanford professor David Palumbo-Liu. ¡°So to disentangle them is really to do a disservice to the fact that these things are so linked together.¡±
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