Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Trump's Racist History Invokes Deadly Anti-Asian Attacks" video.
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@joshuaewalker The racism (not you) is the denigration of a race for the practice of using wet markets. The implication is that they are somehow barbaric savages for buying food like that. Given the way Britain rears chickens, and as you say, Texas eats rattlesnakes, and all over America there are festivals where they eat animal testicles, and all over Europe we eat eyeballs, brains, blood and stomachs, no westerner has the right to look down on China for their wet markets.
Also, the additional racism, depending on the sentiment, is automatically assuming, in the face of ALL qualified scientific opinion to the contrary, that this was a manufactured virus. The OP is clearly blaming the Chinese for some kind of deliberate act, and YOU are clearly more willing to believe that this was just some research that got away from them than the scientific consensus that it was simply a mutation that jumped from animals to humans. The underpinnings of that belief are the issue.
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@joshuaewalker You say Occam's razor, yet the world's experts almost universally say that none of the markers for this being man-made are absent. The world's experts point to previous cases of such things occuring and they arose in wet markets such as the one in Wuhan. So, if you have two competing hypotheses - one which has never occurred, which requires a lot of additional assumptions about Chinese incompetence or Chinese intent, and the other which simply requires exactly what nature has already done time and again, and the latter is the one that the EXPERTS believe happened, then Occam's razor - the choice that requires you to make the least assumptions, is the more likely.
As for racism, honestly, I don't much care, so long as you are not out killing Asian massage workers. But for the record, (and it's not my right to stand in judgement over you anyway), but I 99% accept that you have not racist intent. You sound like a rationalist, which I like. I simply disagree with your interpretation of the evidence, and so do most of the world's governments.
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