NPR Calls the Effort to Make People Eat Bugs a ‘Right Wing Conspiracy’ but Pushed the Idea Multiple Times
It seems like every other week, a liberal media outlet runs a story expalining why people should eat bugs, usually to save the planet from climate change.
National Public Radio calls this a right wing conspiracy. Really. Look at this:
This right wing conspiracy theory about eating bugs is about as racist as you think
“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.
