RFK Jr. Said COVID-19 May Have Been 'Ethnically Targeted', Then Denied Saying It

[Eugene]

Source: Daily Beast

ANTISEMITISM AND SINOPHOBIA

RFK Jr. Said COVID-19 May Have Been ‘Ethnically Targeted’ to Spare Jews and Chinese, Then Denied Saying It

Kennedy said “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” but not “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” He later denied saying that, despite video evidence.

Chris Hippensteel
Breaking News Intern
Anthony L. Fisher
Senior Opinion Editor
Updated Jul. 16, 2023 3:50AM EDT / Published Jul. 15, 2023 9:40AM EDT

At an off-the-rails event Tuesday in New York City, notable anti-vaxxer and longshot 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. parroted what has been characterized as a white supremacist COVID-19 conspiracy theory.

“In fact, COVID-19, there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” Kennedy told a room full of press in a video obtained by the New York Post. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

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In a Twitter post on Saturday, RFK Jr. insisted—despite video evidence—that he “never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.” Rather, he argued that he was simply pointing out that COVID-19 is “least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews,” during a conversation about how “the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons.”

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-covid-19-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews-and-chinese

[marble falls]

1. He can parse that shit any way he wants, it still reeks.

[comradebillyboy]

2. That boy can't keep his conspiracy theories straight.

[getagrip_already]

3. All he said was...

The virus doesn't seem to impact the circumcised, or those that eat bagels with a shmere of cream cheese and who like really sweet wine.

Really, he never even mentioned hats.

[mucifer]

4. And Chinese people

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. He's not going to survive actually being paid attention to.

He survived nicely on the fringe for a long time but the spotlight will never be his friend.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. So, it says there's video evidence ... can we see it?

Just curious?

[Eugene]

7. The New York post recorded the the RFK Jr. video.

At the risk of an alert, here's the the NY Post link.

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

RFK Jr. talked about bioweapons and then stated, "In fact COVID-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted..."

Part of RFK Jr's defense is that he was speaking off the record.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. While this is theoretically possible probably ... there's no evidence whatsoever COVID is such

a case. He's just playing on stupid people's paranoia. And thanks for the video, I did want to hear the context.

I'm not going to call it 'racist', because, as a matter of fact, there are certain conditions that Ashkenazi Jews are more or less susceptible to vs the population as a whole.

It's actually a 'thing', similar to how sickle-cell anemia is more common in certain populations of African descent.

It's not 'racist' inherently to make this scientific observation.

[Eugene]

10. Observations need to be based in fact and supported by evidence.

RFK's statements about Jews and COVID has been debunked in multiple places.

In the case of China, they depended on draconian lockdowns. When the lockdowns stopped, the Chinese were hit hard.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. We are in total agreement my friend (nt)

[Silent Type]

9. Even if he's right about context of what he said, most know he's a kook anyway.