Re:The media's lab leak fiasco
by jacob2484 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:14PM
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Remember - people were called fascists + racists for mentioning or discussing the lab leak theory.
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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco
by Godel_unicode on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:18PM
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Remember, the discussion of the lab leak theory is strongly correlated with a rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans. There were also lots of links made between the lab leak theory and needing to tighten immigration policies to keep out "undesirables".
> Remember, the discussion of the lab leak theory is strongly correlated with a rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans
By black people, the group least likely to be part of the party whose leader's immigration policy you decry, and who have always had anti-asian sentiment after the LA riots.
Re:The media's lab leak fiasco
by ravel-bar-foo on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:19PM
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Are we sure that was the lab leak theory, and not just the emergence of a novel pandemic disease in China? The kind of people who attack random Asians in the street don't need a lab leak to justify it: they just need the fact that the virus spread outward from Wuhan.
How many hate crimes have been committed? There have been 3.5 million COVID-19 deaths officially. Sorry but the truth is more important. Hate crimes are already illegal.
Re:The media's lab leak fiasco
by NikolaeVarius on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:44PM
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So?