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ekianjo
on Aug 12, 2023
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We need scientific dissidents
The fact that labs exist in other countries with people of different ethnicities is not racist
Nasrudith
on Aug 12, 2023
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But the fact it was basically a recycling of several racist "those filthy foreigners are responsible for disease" tropes along with "scheming orientals" tropes.
jkhdigital
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No the argument is nonsensical on its face. A lab leak supposedly recycles those tropes but
emergence from an unsanitary wet market
does not?
didntcheck
on Aug 12, 2023
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As opposed to the "approved" knowledge that it came from foreigners with poor hygiene eating strange animals?
edgyquant
on Aug 12, 2023
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Seems more like you projecting some racist stuff no one else was thinking of.
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