The Atlanta and Boulder shootings were swiftly pinned on racism. The reality was very different.
Recently, two terrible crimes occurred which had either almost or entirely nothing to do with racism. The mainstream mass media reaction to both was telling and troubling.
First, on 16 March 2021, 21-year-old Robert Long opened fire inside three Atlanta-area massage parlours – Young’s Asian Massage, Gold Massage Spa, and Aromatherapy Spa – with a semi-automatic nine-millimetre handgun. Long killed eight people, six of them Asian-American, and wounded another.
