Covid Lab Leak Confirmed?

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(06-14-2023, 01:59 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I don't watch liberal news, so I have no idea what they were saying, but I always figured it was possible that it was a lab leak. Most likely unintentional but you never know. If liberal media people were saying it is racist to claim that, then just more reason for me not to watch them.

From my viewpoint, I thought the racism discussion was in response to the rise in hate crimes against Asian people by people who seemingly blamed China for the virus.

Like, you can think that a Chinese lab may have leaked the virus without hating Chinese people (especially Chinese or Asian people in America) for that. That's a reasonable thing to do. But once you start attacking Asian people in America because you think China leaked the virus, intentionally or unintentionally, then you've reached racist territory.

Viewed as generously as possible in favor of the liberal media, maybe they felt like people claiming this with no evidence (at the time) would lead to more attacks on Asian people in America, so they'd rather just shut down that discussion in fear of it creating panic among people that turns to violence?

After all, the people claiming this occurred weren't doing it because they had evidence that it occurred, they were just looking for a scape goat to blame for losing their job, losing loved ones or hating the new social distancing guidelines and the shaming associated with violating those new cultural expectations.

The battle to combat "misinformation" has always been a misguided one, in my opinion. If you censor people for saying something wrong, they're more likely to entrench in those beliefs, thinking you are censoring them "for fear of the truth getting out." It's a no win game. Just let people say stupid shit and, when necessary, counter them with accurate information if you have that available.

I would say that they can say there is currently no eveidence, but you can’t say it’s false unless you know it’s false.