I’d like to understand why the entire media and government were so intent on ridicule of any such inquiry. (Perhaps even more so why the usual virtue signaling

I’d like to understand why the entire media and government were so intent on ridicule of any such inquiry. (Perhaps even more so why the usual virtue signaling crowd on social media was parroting this, but that’s a different phenomenon). The best explanation I can see is that they didn’t want to spark ‘racism’ against Asians. If so, it really shows that they think of us like violent apes. Strangely the narrative is strongest in academia and scientific literature, suggesting that intellectuals are simply the most trainable form of ape, mostly useful for their influence upon the hebetudinous. At some point, if we are all idiot followers in such lockstep, there must be some kind of idiot leader that sets the agenda for us to delude ourselves with.