Can someone explain to me why it’s racist to wonder if a virus escaped from a Chinese lab, but it’s not racist to insist that it infected humans because of Chinese wet markets? If anything, isn’t the latter more racist?

Also, isn’t the relevant question: *what happened*? Or no? pic.twitter.com/vSqqJnehf7

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 26, 2021

The truth doesn’t matter.

If it makes a liberal cry, it’s racist. If a MAGA person believes it, it’s racist. If Trump said it, it’s racist. If it happened more than 20 years go, it’s racist. Etc. It just doesn’t matter to most people what actually happened or what the truth is — they just want to be on the “right” team. This is just as true, by the way, of conservatives and Republicans as it is of liberals. Probably even more so.

But because I am a liberal, it bothers me more when people I tend to want to associate with engage in this jackassery.