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Asian Women and Purity Culture - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "There is this idea that Chinese women, and Japanese women, and Mongolian women are criminal and immoral."
      - "Asian women, and Chinese women in particular, have been envision as 'immoral' and as 'immoral' because they are sex workers. So there is this association of Asian women with sexuality and with them being 'tempters' and 'seducers.'"
      - "The figure of the Asian sex worker is the linchpin of racist US immigration law. She is imagined to be lewd and immoral, requiring bio-political containment against degeneracy, but truly, against any possibility of an Asian future for the nation."
      - "The criminalization and specter of Asian sex work lives in racist US immigration law"
  - - - "Purity culture is a classic example of how Christian nationalism works to often hide its expansive reach under the umbrella of one thing."
      - When the shooter uses sexual addition to justify his murderous rampage, he is able to frame his actions as based in faith and not racism.
      - "This is how Christian nationalism works: it uses the banner of faith to smuggle in xenophobia, patriarchy, racism, in this case, male violence."
      - "Purity culture is about more than the purity of the physical body. Purity culture is about the purity of the national body."
      - "There has been a long and expansive attempt to use sexual purity as a way to maintain ethnic purity; racial purity; to not mix the races; to construct what is, in essence, a straight, white, purely American, Christian national body"
      - "Purity culture is about more than bodily purity. It's about national purity, it's about racial purity, it's about ethnic purity."