I genuinely find it strange that the lab leak hypothesis - and I don't have a horse in this race and I doubt this matter is going to be resolved in my lifetime - is somehow considered more racist than the wet market hypothesis.

"Wuhan has an advanced virology laboratory engaged in gain-of-function research and some idiot screwed everything up for all of us" is somehow more racist than "there's a wet market down the street where they buy raccoon dogs to eat"? The latter just seems far more condescending to me.