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A specific kind of racism

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A look at the unique vulnerability of spa workers in the wake of the deadly shootings in Atlanta. And how to handle your Zoom fatigue.

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Eight people have died after a gunman opened fire in Asian-run spas in and around Atlanta. Six of the victims were Asian women. Anne Branigin, a staff writer for The Lily, looks at the unique vulnerability of spa workers through the lens of race, class and gender

Zoom fatigue is real. Paulina Firozi reports on what you can do about it

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, Washington Post is Colby.

0:11.4

Hi, Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post.

0:14.5

This is Post Reports.

0:16.0

I'm Martine Powers.

0:19.8

It's Thursday, March 18th.

0:23.5

Today, the unique vulnerability of Asian spa workers and what to do about your Zoom fatigue.

0:37.1

Tuesday night in the Atlanta area, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long appeared to target three Asian

0:45.8

businesses.

0:46.8

They were all spas.

0:48.4

I think within an hour of each other, he shot and killed eight people.

0:53.5

Six of whom were women of Asian descent.

0:58.8

Anne Brinigan is a reporter for the Lili.

1:01.1

She spoke to editor Alexis Dio.

1:03.7

And just a warning, this conversation might be hard to hear, especially for victims

1:07.5

of sexual violence.

1:09.4

I think it's impossible to separate it from the larger discourse that's been happening

1:15.0

over the last year around heightened fear in the Asian-American community.

1:20.0

I think that was the context through which I read it.

1:23.5

So I didn't really see the story until Wednesday morning.

1:28.9

And there was just this really visceral outpouring of grief, fear that felt very immediate, but

1:36.6

also this sense of being targeted.

1:44.2

And when you heard that it was Asian spa's specifically, what did that signal to you?

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