Over the past few weeks, the subject of anti-Asian racism has received an unusual degree of Western media attention, ever since a video showing the January 28 killing of\u00a0Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old Thai immigrant in San Francisco, was widely shared on social media. Coverage intensified when gunman Robert Aaron Long targeted three Asian-owned spas on March 6, killing six Asian women among eight victims in Atlanta, Georgia. Local and national media centered the gunman\u2019s professed motive of a \u201csex addiction\u201d and police statements disputing whether the crime was racially motivated, even though gendered racism is still a factor when racist incidents don\u2019t meet the\u00a0narrow and arbitrary requirements\u00a0of what constitutes a hate crime (FAIR.org,\u00a03\/26\/21).<\/p>\n
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