Of course Robert Aaron Long is a bigot. And of course his shootings were hate crimes.
It's ridiculous that anybody is even debating whether or not a white man that targeted and killed six Asian American women across three Asian-owned businesses committed hate crimes.
When you go buy a gun and ammo, then travel to three Asian-owned spas to shoot and kill the Asian and Asian American women working at those businesses, that’s the literal textbook definition of a hate crime.
FULL STOP.
It’s dumb, obtuse, ignorant, foolish, stupid, and every other negative adjective I can think of to say other…
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