In videotaped remarks, Kennedy suggested the virus was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, drawing accusations of racism and antisemitism.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is facing widespread criticism from political leaders and civil rights organizations after a video surfaced of him making false claims that COVID-19 was designed to attack certain ethnic groups while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people — a conspiracy theory that drew accusations of antisemitism and racism.

    • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “His claim is insane, but it’s right”?

      That’s your defense?

      What he said sounds bad, especially when we just read the headlines and think we know the context, but he’s just saying the virus doesn’t affect every ethnicity the same.

      We know that. It’s fact. You agree with it. So why is the claim insane?

            • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,”

              Are you claiming that there are no differences between ethnicities and the harshness of covid?

              COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he continued, adding, “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.”

              What’s wrong with that? He said we don’t know the origins. That’s fact. He said we do know they affect different ethnicities differently, that’s fact.

              You’re trying to push a narrative against him for that.

              Come on, dude.

                • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  We don’t know the exact origins

                  And many big organizations say there’s a reasonable chance that it was lab altered.

                  we should assume given the likelihood it is and the lack of evidence otherwise that’s its perfectly natural

                  We don’t know the origins, as you said before, but we should assume it was natural? I don’t assume either way, but it seems weird you claimed both these things.

                  He is obviously throwing racist dog whistles

                  No, he’s not. He said that we don’t know if it was created/altered by humans or not.

                  But we do know it affects different ethnicities differently, which is, once again, objectively right.

                  refusing to see that shows you are a racist

                  Refusing to think like you makes me a racist? I think we have different definitions of racist.