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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Why Don’t We Know More About the Atlanta Victims?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On March 16, a white gunman killed eight people - six of them Asian-American women - during shootings at three different spas in Georgia. The shooter claims he was driven by a “sex addiction,” but his actions fall into a complicated legacy where race, sex, and the fetishization of Asian women all intersect. That legacy is now in full view as the nation grapples with this latest tragedy and a rise in anti-Asian violence. .  Guest: Lisa Hagen is a reporter for WABE in Atlanta and the co-host of No Compromise, a podcast about a grassroots movement for gun rights. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Over the weekend, city after city sounded like this. This is Seattle. In Minneapolis, protesters

0:48.7

filled a local park. In Pittsburgh, the actress Sandra O. got out of bullhorn and led the crowd

0:55.7

in a chant. All of these people were coming together to try to make sense of the shooting

1:24.7

that took place last week in Atlanta, a shooting that left eight people dead, six of them,

1:29.7

Asian women. In Atlanta itself, newly elected senators Rafael Warnaq and John Assof spoke

1:37.5

to a crowd of hundreds at the Georgia State Capitol.

2:08.5

But Lisa Hagen, who's been reporting on the shootings for WABE, the local public radio

2:13.7

station, says there's one way in which these protests sounded different than other protests

2:21.7

she's covered.

2:23.2

You know, it's become sort of mainstream and normal after a horrific act of violence,

2:30.7

especially in the black community, to say their name, to say out loud the people who've

2:36.2

been taken from their communities. And in this case, apparently family members have asked

2:43.7

for that not to happen. This is a private kind of grief for a lot of the family members.

2:53.9

You're not seeing them show up in person to sort of mourn in front of news cameras. It's

3:00.9

a different kind of reaction to this level of devastation.

3:06.9

Lisa doesn't know why the families made this request, though she says it could be because

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