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# Please Spare Us from One More Murderous White Boy's Fever Dream of a Really Bad Day
March 18 2021
Written by Abby Zimet.
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**GUEST COMMENTARY**--When your country has a [white supremacy ](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/17/racist-extremists-us-domestic-terrorism-intelligence-report)problem, it's not bad enough when another young, sick, white, racist guy with a fetish commits [mass murder](https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/17/unspeakable-tragedy-anti-asian-hate-crime-feared-gunman-kills-8-georgia) at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, killing six Asian women and two other people;
you also get another old, sick, white, racist cop benevolently explaining the kid was having "a really bad day" - the white-male-rage alternative to bingeing on ice cream - and man they sure [know ](https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1372265496599535622)what it's like to have a bad day and kill eight people, though they feel compelled by their white-guy-ness to insist this white kid's bloody crimes against non-white women had nothing whatsoever to do with racism or misogyny, as God is our (white male) witness.
Robert Aaron Long, 21, who has been [charged ](https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978141138/atlanta-shooting-suspect-is-believed-to-have-visited-spas-he-targeted)with eight counts of murder, was taken into custody "without incident," which is to say with nary a knee on his neck or a gun wildly drawn on him, though many wondered if police got him a shake and fries with his burger en route to the station, where they likely rolled out the white guy carpet for him.
Long reportedly [came](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/16/atlanta-spa-shootings/) from "a good Christian family" yada yada yada and described his life as “Pizza, guns, drums, music, family, and God" - to which we can now add white rage, untreated mental health issues, [sex addiction ](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/close-and-personal/201609/anthony-weiner-is-not-sex-addict-neither-is-anyone-else-0)or at least poor impulse control, [racist fetishization ](https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/the-madame-butterfly-effect-asian-fetish-history-pop-culture)of Asian women, too-easy [access to guns ](https://www.ajc.com/news/exclusive-spa-shooting-suspect-bought-gun-hours-before-deadly-spree/FEURWVYBEFBMJP7GLOQ6AQJ27A/)and maybe too much time listening to former bigots in power sneer about the "Chinese Virus," including just last night, which has helped [spark ](https://secureservercdn.net/104.238.69.231/a1w.90d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/210312-Stop-AAPI-Hate-National-Report-.pdf)this year's almost 3,800 acts of hate against Asian-Americans, a [spike ](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/there-were-3-800-anti-asian-racist-incidents-mostly-against-n1261257)of nearly 150%. But no cause and effect here.
At a [news conference](https://www.ajc.com/news/exclusive-spa-shooting-suspect-bought-gun-hours-before-deadly-spree/FEURWVYBEFBMJP7GLOQ6AQJ27A/), Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker, who we hope has submitted his resignation, [said ](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1372203730481864713)Long was "fed up" and "kind of at the end of his rope." “Yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did,” he said. One *Twitter* sage: "What (and I can't stress this enough) the fuck?!"
This, many [retorted,](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1372203730481864713) is why we need police reform, and why we can't have change or other nice things until white supremacists are "removed from the uniform."
[\#TheresYourProblemRIGHTThere](https://www.commondreams.org/further/2021/03/17/RIGHTThere): "Why does this keep happening? cries the country that continually makes excuses for white mass murderers and believes access to military grade firearms is a God-given right but health care, a living wage and racial justice are a plot to destroy the U.S."
Others: "You know who it was a really, *really* bad day for? The eight people he killed and their families." Many [noted ](https://twitter.com/mannyfidel/status/1372212500201095168)cranky black people don't get to have "bad days," or they're killed by police and then exposed as "no angel" on national media "for smoking a joint once in middle school."
And when white people who aren't misogynistic sociopaths have a bad day, they nap, cry, watch old movies, bake bread, get high, play speed chess online "but I always try to stay polite," binge on ice cream or tacos or "two bowls of Goldfish crackers for dinner like a regular person," and "all the people they come into contact with are still alive at the end of the day." Others got real:
They suggested [support ](https://www.commondreams.org/further/2021/03/17/%20https%3A/twitter.com/ccedLA/status/1372080826381340672)for massage parlor workers; sought to[ know](https://twitter.com/katchow/status/1372028334864003073) the names of the [victims, ](https://www.thedailybeast.com/victims-of-atlanta-massage-parlor-killings-identified-robert-aaron-long-charged-with-murder?via=twitter_page)"who and what they loved...the fabric of their days"; and furiously[ confronted](https://twitter.com/jennyyangtv/status/1372011821427617792) those to whom Asian women, sex workers, Kung flu "are your punchlines - you fucking did this."
"SAY WHAT IT IS," [wrote ](https://twitter.com/jennyyangtv/status/1372011821427617792)Jenny Yang. "Asian Women Slain In Mass Shooting Hate Crime By A White Terrorist."
*(Abby Zimet writes for CommonDreams.org … where this piece was first posted.) Photo by AFP via Getty.*
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