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It's not racist to blame China, but it is racist to accuse/harass/disparage Asian people and that was what was happening in America. Pushing back on the lab lea
by standardUser 2y ago
It's not racist to blame China, but it is racist to accuse/harass/disparage Asian people and that was what was happening in America. Pushing back on the lab leak theory was at least in part to stop the dumbest among us from blaming their Asian neighbor. That and the lack of evidence.
- ugh123 2y agoBoth happened. People who merely "suggested" the lab could have leaked, and asked to investigate more, were being called racist.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoIt was racism to suggest that China’s only level4 bio lab that received funding for coronavirus research was the source of the leak… But not racism to declare that the virus must have come from a wet market where the savages eat uncooked bats and pangolin. Now the goal posts have shifted to “lack of evidence” knowing full well china would nuke the city before admitting they caused covid by negligence.
- wk_end 2y agoThe WIV was doing research on bat coronaviruses at BSL-2, not BSL-4. See Ralph Baric's testimony covered in this Vanity Fair article: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ralph-baric-wuhan-lab-leak https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ralph-baric-wuhan-lab-...