A seriously mentally ill man, spent every dime he had or could steal, habitually frequenting several houses of prostitution.
He snapped, and murdered 8 people... most of them prostitutes... at those houses of prostitution.
Those houses of prostitution were Asian massage parlors.
Were those murders "anti-asian hate crimes and violence"?
Any sane person knows, of course not...
These murders absolutely WERE violence against women, and violence against sex workers. There is no question of that... and that was clearly WHY this piece of human excrement targeted those women for violence. .
That these women were Asian was entirely irrelevant to why they were murdered, or why they were targeted for violence; except in that that majority of organized prostitution in most parts of this country is run by Asian criminal networks, and thus the majority of prostitutes in massage parlors and the like, are Asian (many of them having been the victims of human trafficking).
But that is not supportive of the narrative the media and the left want to push right now. So you're not hearing about violence against sex workers... Which is ABSOLUTELY a MAJOR problem in this country...
...(Somewhere between 30% and 80% of sex workers... depending on what category of sex work they are involved in, where they are, and whether they are a citizen or legal.immigrant, or not... will experience violence against them in some significant way, because they are sex workers. That's not even counting the fact that the majority, or a significant minority, of sex workers involved in prostitution in many areas of the country, are themselves victims of human trafficking)...
... Instead, there is a hysterical hyping of this as an anti-asian hate crime, to push the narrative that there is a wild and out of control surge of anti-asian hate and violence... Supposedly because ignorant stupid unenlightened right wing white Americans, are all white supremacists, and hate all Asians because of Trump and China and COVID etc... etc...
Which is the most blatant and total BS the media and the left are currently pushing... which is really saying something.
