Ted Lieu just nailed it
The Cherokee County Sheriff spokesman made a bizarre, tone-deaf, and outrageous statement today when he claimed that the white man who shot several Asian-Americans last night was merely having a “bad day.”
We don’t yet know for 100% certain that this was a hate crime, as there’s perhaps a remote chance there could have been some other motivation that we don’t yet know about. But what we do know is that the Sheriff’s department was totally out of line for sympathizing with the shooter – a reminder of just how omnipresent white privilege is in these situations.
Congressman Ted Lieu said it best today:
All of us have experienced bad days. But we don’t go to three Asian businesses and shoot up Asian employees. #StopAsianHate https://t.co/A38TM7vmhY
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 17, 2021
Ted Lieu then spelled out why this is very much looking like a racist hate crime so far: “The murderer targeted Young’s ASIAN Massage Parlor. He then drove 27 miles to another ASIAN spa. Here’s a review of Gold’s Spa: ‘Good atmosphere with Korean girls giving proper massage.’ If the murderer’s temptations are Asian women and he kills them, that’s racially motivated.”
