So, RFK Jr is now trying to explain how Covid-19 was created in a lab and genetically engineered not to target Jews and Chinese was not an antisemitic or Sinophobic.
That sound that you hear is his dad spinning in his grave at 45,000 RPM:
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied allegations of racism and anti-Semitism Saturday after he reportedly suggested Covid-19 could have been genetically engineered to reduce risks to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
Kennedy — a longtime vaccine skeptic who is running a longshot primary campaign against President Joe Biden — said during a Tuesday night press event that Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people.” He went on to say that “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
First, it's not accurate, Jewish Covid mortality is higher, and second, this is a blatantly racist and antisemitic trope.
He's not saying that he's misspoken, and he did not deny saying it. He's implying that the disease was created by the Jews and Chinese, and claiming that there was no bigotry involved.
Yeah, sure:
After a broad backlash to his comments, first reported by the New York Post, Kennedy took to Twitter to defend himself, calling the reporting “mistaken” and writing that he did not believe Covid-19 had been deliberately engineered against specific ethnicities.
“I have never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews,” Kennedy wrote.
Instead, Kennedy claimed, he had meant to express his belief that the United States and other governments were developing “ethnically targeted bioweapons,” broadly citing a 2021 study on genetic susceptibility to Covid-19 as “proof of concept” that such bioweapons could be created.
Bullsh%$.
RFK, Jr. has been down so many conspiracy theory rabbit holes, that eventually he would end up pushing antisemitic tropes.
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