Re: NPR and Eating the Bugs

On Apr 28, 2025 at 6:55:38 PM PDT, "Pluted Pup" <plutedpup@outlook.com>
wrote:

On 4/27/25 10:36 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
 

 Two headlines from NPR illustrating exactly why they need to be defunded of
 all taxpayer dollars.
 
 In 2019, the proposed government-enforced bug diet was all the rage among
the
 Left. By 2025, the very thing which NPR promoted and advocated has somehow
 morphed into an unhinged "right-wing racist conspiracy theory".
 
 NPR: Look at all these tasty bugs for you to eat!
 
 NORMALS: I will not be eating ze bugs.
 
 NPR: No one's suggesting you eat bugs, you racist whack-job!
 
 
 Companies Face an Uphill Battle Trying to Get Americans to Eat Bugs
 December 24, 2019. 5:05 AM ET
 
 
 
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/24/791030172/companies-face-an-uphill-battle-trying-to-get-americans-to-eat-bugs
 
 
 The Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Eating Bugs is About as Racist as You
 Think
 March 6, 2024. 3:00 AM ET
 
 https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1197955874/code-switch-bug-eating-03-06-2024

 
 
"'I will not eat the bugs' became a meme on 4chan and emerged in
conservative talk shows and political speech. But why has it
gained traction? In this week's Code Switch, Gene Demby and NPR
reporter Huo Jingnan dive into the sprawling conspiracy theory
behind it. Proponents of the theory lean on the anti-semitic
trope that 'global elites' have a plot to control the masses — in
this case under the guise of climate change solutions — by
forcing them to eat bugs."

And yet it was NPR themselves who were pushing the bug diet in 2019, which
means it was neither a conspiracy theory, nor was it right-wing. It may very
well have had its roots in racism, however, since the Left is usually guilty
of that which they decry the loudest.

And since when does "global elite" = Jew?

Most of the elites who were pushing crap like the bug diet and the "you'll own
nothing and be happy" plan, like Klaus Schwab and the WEF, aren't Jews, so why
is referring to them as "global elites" anti-semitic?

Or is that just another media tactic? Pretend "elites" is a code word for
"Jews" so that anyone who refers to them can be smeared and discredited as
anti-semitic whether they actually are or not.

Whew, we're lucky they exposed that.  Democracy preserved!
If we let the right wing conspiracy get away with talking about
bugs and elites who knows what else they could get away with?