r/MurderedByWords • u/Iangator Murdered Mod • Apr 23 '21

Murder RG3 gets murdered

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u/CopyX Apr 23 '21

Likely, we dont know. But the “ate a bat” trope is a trope used by a lot of racist/xenophobic people.

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u/i-give-upvotes Apr 23 '21

The media reported that this was the case. Not saying the media can’t be racist but I don’t think repeating the reports make you racists.

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u/tweezer888 Apr 23 '21

No, the media didn't report that a Chinese person ate a bat. That was an idiotic leap in logic made by racists. The media only reported that the ancestor to SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in bats.

There was a Twitter video of a Chinese woman "at a Wuhan night market" eating bat soup was actually a travel blogger eating it in Palau in 2016, kind of like how Andrew Zimmern eats weird shit on Bizarre Foods. It's just accepted that Chinese people eat bats because people are racist as fuck.