The media are about to do one of two things: Either they will quickly lose interest in the Georgia man who confessed to shooting up several massage parlors because of his own professed sex addiction, or they will insist against all evidence that his killing rampage was motivated by white supremacy.
It looks like CNN is going with option No. 2.
During one of his cute “reality check” segments on Thursday, CNN’s John Avlon claimed — without evidence! — that “we don’t yet know exactly what motivated” the suspect, 21-year-old Robert Long.
Actually, we do know. Atlanta-area law enforcement have said that Long, whose shooting spree is on camera and whose identity was alerted to authorities by his own parents, confessed to the killings and that he attributed his motive to a sex addiction that he was trying to resolve by eliminating the places he had frequented to satisfy it.
The media don’t like this set of facts. Because six of the eight victims were of Asian descent, Avlon couldn’t stop from trying to make it about race, thus making it about former President Trump, and thus linking it to the ever elusive “white supremacy.”
It’s nonsense. The irony is that Long appears to have been motivated by the very sort of religious fanaticism that the media would have previously found very interesting, especially because Long isn’t a Muslim.
He was, according to a former high school friend, “super Christian.” A former roommate called Long “deeply religious” and “very emotionally distraught that he frequented” the spas for sex.
“He would have a deep feeling of remorse and shame and say he needed to return to prayer and to return to God,” the former roommate told Reuters.
According to police, Long was apprehended while he was driving southbound on a highway, apparently to continue his rampage in Florida, where he said he might kill actors in the pornography industry.
The facts naturally disappoint Avlon and others in the media who are desperately searching for a white person to commit racist hate crimes against Asians.
They’ve been talking about this supposed surge in “anti-Asian American” hate crimes for weeks, always in the context of Trump having called the coronavirus “Chinese” — something that happened, what, a year ago? — while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge that black male suspects are connected to most of the episodes of reported violence being reported in the media. (To be fair, the media did recently find a white woman who allegedly assaulted a man of Asian descent, but it came with a twist. She’s homeless.)
Apparently, there are many black white supremacists attacking Asians in this country. Very strange.
