The definitive proof. That’s what people want (but probably won’t get) in the story of how the Covid pandemic began. But a tweet from a New York Times reporter today IS definitive proof of one thing: the media is what we think they are.
This is a COVID reporter for arguably the most important liberal media institution in the world, and this is her tweet, making the origin about racism.
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT THEY THINK EVERYTHING IS.
The New York Times COVID-19 reporter deleted this take… pic.twitter.com/md4aa9aomN
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) May 26, 2021
Glenn Greenwald with a great question (and great reaction in a second tweet.)
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
Oh my god: I didn't realize what her job is.
The NYT's COVID reporter is saying we should stop talking about the lab leak theory — *even if it's how COVID entered humans *– because that theory (unlike, I guess, the wet market theory) is racist.
Who cares what happened: NYT. pic.twitter.com/NAtI9N2mJx
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 26, 2021
I said it to y’all before and I’ll say it again. It’s unbelievable. And totally believable.