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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today's Thursday March 18th 2021.

I'm John Poghortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A. Greenmultaie.

Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen, high Christine.

Hi John.

And associate editor Noah Rothman, high Noah.

Hi John.

So we have this horrible, uh, call it serial killing.

It's not the right terms.

It's all happened on the same day, uh, but this, uh, 21 year old, uh, guy in Atlanta who

shot up three massage parlors in, uh, in Atlanta, in an around Atlanta killing eight, six

of whom were, uh, Asian American massage therapists.

And we are now a Washington debate about this, uh, dovetailing with the unambiguous increase

in criminal, uh, assaults of Asian Americans dating back now two and a half years, something

like that.

Um, uh, and it is now dawning on people that, uh, that there is a problem in the United

States with American attitudes towards Asians, uh, but I'm going to throw this out right

now and say that a, uh, a deranged psychopath who goes and shoots six people because he's,

uh, a porn, uh, sex addict and believes that they are attempting him into, you know, evil

behavior and they must be stopped apparently.

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