RFK Jr. accused of antisemitism, racism after remarks about COVID, Ashkenazi Jews

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing accusations of antisemitism and racism after reportedly repeating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories linking COVID-19 to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

According to audio obtained by the New York Post, Kennedy claimed during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant last week that COVID-19 was a genetically engineered bioweapon that could have been “ethnically targeted” to prevent deaths of Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. 

 

“There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy reportedly said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy added, according to the Post.

Kennedy’s remarks met fierce backlash from members of his party.

 

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[ozimoron]

He gets much of his funding from the Republican party.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/15/rfk-fundraising-republicans-00106481

[Hanaguma]

37 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

He gets much of his funding from the Republican party.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/15/rfk-fundraising-republicans-00106481

Strange considering that his political positions are all classic Democrat. 

 

Maybe the GOP is trying to do to the Democrats what the Democrats did in the 2022 midterm elections- support the radical candidate because he would be easier to beat in the general election.

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Just now, Hanaguma said:

Strange considering that his political positions are all classic Democrat. 

 

Maybe the GOP is trying to do to the Democrats what the Democrats did in the 2022 midterm elections- support the radical candidate because he would be easier to beat in the general election.

Really?

RFK Jr comes out against gun control and blames school shootings on ‘drugs’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-gun-control-b2351943.html

 

Being against childhood vaccinations, not to mention Covid, is a classic Democratic position?

 

He said he wanted to seal the Mexican border permanently.

 

 

 

[stevenl]

24 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Strange considering that his political positions are all classic Democrat. 

 

Maybe the GOP is trying to do to the Democrats what the Democrats did in the 2022 midterm elections- support the radical candidate because he would be easier to beat in the general election.

Not strange since the republicans know that Biden would be much harder to beat, especially for their frontrunner.

[bamnutsak]

He had me until he mentioned that the U.S. bio-labs are in the Ukraine.

 

Huh?

 

Video can be viewed here: https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/

 

Honestly this chap is loopy AF. His family should intervene before he says something even more epically stoopid.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

4 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

Strange considering that his political positions are all classic Democrat. 

 

Maybe the GOP is trying to do to the Democrats what the Democrats did in the 2022 midterm elections- support the radical candidate because he would be easier to beat in the general election.

Strange you say that, because his political positions are not ‘all Democrat’.

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

4 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

Honestly this chap is loopy AF.

For all the good works he's done thru the years on environmental issues, he's seriously gone loony when it comes to COVID and COVID vaccines and other issues.

 

And it must be highly embarrassing to the Kennedy family to have him bearing their name.

 

"Several members from Kennedy's close family have distanced themselves from his anti-vaccination activities and condemned his comments equating public health measures with Nazi atrocities.^[229]

 

On May 8, 2019, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph P. Kennedy and Maeve Kennedy McKean wrote an open letter stating that while their relative has championed many admirable causes, he "has helped to spread dangerous misinformation over social media and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines".^[230]

 

On December 30, 2020, Kennedy's niece Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, a physician, wrote a similar open letter. She argued her uncle published misinformation about the side effects of the new COVID-19 vaccines.^[231]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Berkshire]

RFK jr. has also suggested that chemicals in tap water (in the USA) is turning our kids gay.  This dude is loonier than MTG....and that's saying a lot. 

[FruitPudding]

That sounds about right.

 

Can't say anything without being called racist or antisemitic.

 

Straight out the Left's playbook for taking away freedom of speech.

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, FruitPudding said:

That sounds about right.

 

Can't say anything without being called racist or antisemitic.

 

Straight out the Left's playbook for taking away freedom of speech.

You think anti-semitic and racist remarks should be protected as free speech?

Edited July 17, 2023 by ozimoron

[FruitPudding]

38 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

You think anti-semitic and racist remarks should be protected as free speech?

Think you missed my point there, Buddy.

[gargamon]

Rumor has it that RFK Jr and MTG are buddies. ????

[Jingthing]

7 hours ago, ozimoron said:

He gets much of his funding from the Republican party.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/15/rfk-fundraising-republicans-00106481

Yes the magas like him and so does the Kremlin. 

[Jingthing]

47 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

You think anti-semitic and racist remarks should be protected as free speech?

Well I do but it's also free speech to call such remarks and people making them out. 

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, Berkshire said:

RFK jr. has also suggested that chemicals in tap water (in the USA) is turning our kids gay.  This dude is loonier than MTG....and that's saying a lot. 

He is indeed a loon.

He has no chance of being the nominated democrat but if he runs third party he could propel Trump back to the white house. The Kremlin has taken notice and is promoting both Trump and RFK Jr. as are magas.

[Jingthing]

6 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

He had me until he mentioned that the U.S. bio-labs are in the Ukraine.

 

Huh?

 

Video can be viewed here: https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/

 

Honestly this chap is loopy AF. His family should intervene before he says something even more epically stoopid.

 

 

Just like maga, Kremlin talking points.

[Jingthing]

Has anyone heard him speak?
Listen to him for 5 minutes -- guaranteed headache. 

[heybruce]

1 hour ago, FruitPudding said:

That sounds about right.

 

Can't say anything without being called racist or antisemitic.

 

Straight out the Left's playbook for taking away freedom of speech.

Nobody is preventing him from saying stupid things.  People are simply pointing out that some of the things he says are really stupid.

[Bkk Brian]

Says it all really, if Trump likes him then MAGA follow...................

 

Trump calls RFK Jr. ‘a very smart person’

Former President Trump in a new interview praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a “very smart person” as the Democratic presidential candidate has courted controversy with comments about vaccines and the war in Ukraine.

“He’s a very smart person. I know a lot of the members of that family, and he’s a very smart guy. And he’s hit a little bit of a nerve. And a lot of Democrats I know want to vote for him,” Trump said in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” broadcast on Fox News.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4100111-trump-calls-rfk-jr-a-very-smart-person/

[bamnutsak]

1 hour ago, FruitPudding said:

That sounds about right.

 

Can't say anything without being called racist or antisemitic.

 

Straight out the Left's playbook for taking away freedom of speech.

 

Yes, of course you can say anything you want (within forum rules), and we are free to criticize what you said. If you say something which is racist or antisemitic than we are left to conclude that you may be a racist or an antisemite.

 

Who, exactly took away RFK Jr's freedom of speech?

 

You're confusing criticism with censorship. A common symptom of Conservative Aggrievement Disorder.

 

 

[metisdead]

A troll post and the replies have removed.

[Tug]

9 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

Strange considering that his political positions are all classic Democrat. 

 

Maybe the GOP is trying to do to the Democrats what the Democrats did in the 2022 midterm elections- support the radical candidate because he would be easier to beat in the general election.

Ahh no not classic democrat and I think their (GOP) latest greatest attempt to get (it) re elected is trying to get WV senator Joe Mansen to run in an attempt to divide the vote thereby giving the orange troll a chance to further damage democracy 

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4 hours ago, FruitPudding said:

That sounds about right.

 

Can't say anything without being called racist or antisemitic.

 

Straight out the Left's playbook for taking away freedom of speech.

So, freedom of speech means saying whatever want to except for criticizing what other people say? Are you serioiusly contending that what RFK said about the Chinese and Ashekenazi Jews wasn't racist and anti-semitic? Are you claiming that he didn't invoke fake science to support what he said?

[Jingthing]

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Says it all really, if Trump likes him then MAGA follow...................

 

Trump calls RFK Jr. ‘a very smart person’

Former President Trump in a new interview praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a “very smart person” as the Democratic presidential candidate has courted controversy with comments about vaccines and the war in Ukraine.

“He’s a very smart person. I know a lot of the members of that family, and he’s a very smart guy. And he’s hit a little bit of a nerve. And a lot of Democrats I know want to vote for him,” Trump said in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” broadcast on Fox News.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4100111-trump-calls-rfk-jr-a-very-smart-person/

Same thing he called Putin. 

[KhunLA]

5 hours ago, FruitPudding said:

That sounds about right.

 

Can't say anything without being called racist or antisemitic.

 

Straight out the Left's playbook for taking away freedom of speech.

Agree, especially being the only viable candidate to challenge biden.  Attack, label & discredit ... right out of the playbook.

 

I await the sex harassments claims ????

Edited July 17, 2023 by KhunLA

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Just now, KhunLA said:

Agree, especially being the only viable candidate to challenge biden.

If he ever was a viable candidate, which considering his support of an extreme interpretation of the 2nd Amendment and  his opposition to childhood vaccination is simply ridiculous, his current racist and anti-semitic comment has definitively put the kibosh on his candidacy. Although, I could see him as Trump's running mate.

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

If he ever was a viable candidate, which considering his support of an extreme interpretation of the 2nd Amendment and  his opposition to childhood vaccination is simply ridiculous, his current racist and anti-semitic comment has definitively put the kibosh on his candidacy. Although, I could see him as Trump's running mate.

He's a maga / Kremlin troll candidate. He has zero chance of being nominated by the democrats. Biden owes him nothing.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

6 hours ago, Berkshire said:

RFK jr. has also suggested that chemicals in tap water (in the USA) is turning our kids gay.  This dude is loonier than MTG....and that's saying a lot. 

There is legitimate inquiry into whether endocrine disruptors and other chemicals in tap water and from other sources my affect gender and sexuality.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281309/

 

If this is what he he means, he may not be so looney on this point.

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11 hours ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

There is legitimate inquiry into whether endocrine disruptors and other chemicals in tap water and from other sources my affect gender and sexuality.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281309/

 

If this is what he he means, he may not be so looney on this point.

And here's another:

 

A review of the endocrine disrupting effects of micro and nano plastic and their associated chemicals in mammals

 Approximately, 1000 chemicals classified as endocrine disruptor chemicals (EDCs) alter the expression of various hormone receptors and interfere with the synthesis, secretion, transport, and action of hormones, leading to endocrine and developmental abnormalities (23, 24). Nearly nine different forms of MPs are reported in human feces from multiple countries, clearly validating the presence of MPs in the human food chain and warning us about their harmful effects on human health (25). MPs and their composite toxic additives can cross various biological membranes, blood-brain barriers and both can interfere with various hormone receptors, thereby disrupting different hypothalamic axes such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis [HPT], the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis [HPA], and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPG; Figure 1) (23, 26–29). 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/

 

Just because RFK is a loon most of time, that doesn't mean he's a loon all the time. Even a stopped clock...