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Last week's violence at three spas in Georgia, followed a year of escalating violence against Asian Americans, some of it captured on videos that went viral. Despite visual evidence, New Yorker writer Hua Hsu, writes that this current moment stresses the "in-between space Asian Americans inhabit." It's hard to prove bias when we lack a historical understanding of what Asian American racism looks like. 

The 21-year-old man who killed eight people last week, six of whom were Asian women, told investigators that he attacked the spas because he was struggling with a “sex addiction” and wanted to eliminate the “temptation” of buying sex. Psychologist Joshua Grubbs writes that religion is deeply intertwined with perceptions of sexual behavior and moral beliefs about sexuality. 

GUESTS: 
Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. He is an associate professor of English at Vassar College (@huahsu)
Joshua Grubbs is an assistant professor of psychology at Bowling State University. His research is primarily concerned with the scientific study of addiction, personality, and morality (@joshuagrubbsphd)

Last week's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/what-happened-atlanta-shooting/2021/03/18/163e4de8-8733-11eb-8a8b-5cf82c3dffe4_story.html">violence</a>&nbsp;at three spas in Georgia, followed a year of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.csusb.edu/hate-and-extremism-center">escalating violence&nbsp;</a>against Asian Americans, some of it captured on videos that went viral. Despite visual evidence, New Yorker writer&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-muddled-history-of-anti-asian-violence">Hua Hsu</a>, writes that this current moment stresses the "in-between space Asian Americans inhabit." It's hard to prove bias when we lack a historical understanding of what Asian American racism looks like.&nbsp;
The 21-year-old man who killed eight people last week, six of whom were Asian women, told investigators that he attacked the spas because he was struggling with a &ldquo;sex addiction&rdquo; and wanted to eliminate the &ldquo;temptation&rdquo; of buying sex. Psychologist&nbsp;<a href="https://theconversation.com/sex-addiction-isnt-a-justification-for-killing-or-really-an-addiction-it-reflects-a-persons-own-moral-misgivings-about-sex-157543">Joshua Grubbs</a>&nbsp;writes that religion is deeply intertwined with perceptions of sexual behavior and moral beliefs about sexuality.&nbsp;
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<li>Hua Hsu&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/hua-hsu">staff writer&nbsp;</a>at&nbsp;The New Yorker&nbsp;and the author of&nbsp;A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific.&nbsp;He is an associate professor of English at Vassar College (<a href="https://twitter.com/huahsu">@huahsu</a>)</li>
<li>Joshua Grubbs&nbsp;is an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/psychology/people/joshua-grubs.html">assistant professor</a>&nbsp;of psychology at Bowling State University. His research is primarily concerned with the scientific study of addiction, personality, and morality (<a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaGrubbsPhD?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@joshuagrubbsphd</a>)</li>
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