While the shooting of nine people, eight of whom died as a result, is indeed a horrific thing, it does not make it a hate crime. Additionally, just the fact the a majority of the victims were Asian women, still does not make it a hate crime. In order for a crime to be an actual “hate crime,” the motivation of the suspect is pertinent. In fact, the suspect’s motivation is the ONLY thing that adds the designation of hate crime to whatever the underlying crime may be.
Hate Crime Defined
It is important to know what the definition of a hate crime is. Per the FBI, a hate crime is a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.”
What we know about the events in Atlanta. The suspect (whom I refuse to name) targeted three different massage parlors, which the mainstream media wants to call “spas.” It is our understanding that these locations may have been covers for prostitution. Massage parlors doubling as a place in which you can get a “happy ending” are not remotely new. There is a reason most cops I know call them a “rub and tug.”
The three passage parlors that the suspect targeted employed Asian females. Again, not an uncommon theme. Illicit “massage parlors” often have a theme to attract their clientele. From the reports, it sounds as if the suspect may have patronized these massage parlors as a client in the past.
Per the suspect’s own statements, or what we know of his statements, he had a special attraction to Asian women. In his own words, he was addicted to Asian porn and had a sexual addiction.
Being strongly attracted to Asian women is the exact opposite of hating them.
While his decision to go kill them in order to eliminate them as a temptation from his life is clearly not logical, and shows how disgusting and depraved he is, it is not a motivation based on hate.
What boggles my mind are all the politicians, mainstream news outlets, and liberals in general who are running around saying that the suspect is lying and that we should not believe him. They are claiming it is obviously a hate crime because six of the eight people he killed were Asian women.
That is NOT how this works. What you think is completely irrelevant in this matter. The ONLY thing that matters is what the suspect thought.
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Example of an Actual Hate Crime
The people screaming that Atlanta was a hate crime are the same people who, and rightly so in this case, believed the suspect (again, refuse to name them) of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina when he said his motivation was because he hated blacks. You see, in that case, the suspect had a history of saying racist, hateful things about blacks. That history helps prove the motivation for his crime, and thus, correctly, rendered that horrible event a true hate crime.
But hey, why take my word for it? Every agency investigating this incident has also said it is NOT a hate crime. Hell, even Joe Biden’s FBI said it is not a hate crime.
I understand that the liberal left wants it to be a hate crime. It helps them keep the narrative that all whites are racists flowing. They are most certainly running a full court press on this one. Every liberal media outlet is running non-stop stories about this incident, referring to it as a hate crime. Hell, the cop hating lefty nutjobs at HuffPo even took to blaming the cops because they refuse to call this a hate crime.
Facts Matter. Feelings, Not So Much
Now, I understand that definitions can be tough to understand, and that to people who operate mostly on emotion (liberals), facts don’t matter.
However, when it comes to crimes, definitions of said crimes and the facts that can be proven are the ONLY things that do in fact matter. Your feelings don’t mean doodly.
