Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned over false claims that COVID-19 was "ethnically targeted"
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned over false claims that COVID-19 was "ethnically targeted"
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.
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"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?
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saying there is a Jewish-chinese conspiracy to destroy the white race.
Where did he say this?
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“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.
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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.
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The vast majority of diseases are natural so assuming its engineered without hard evidence is silly
The scientific community has been vocal that it's reasonably likely it was altered in the coronavirus lab. You being anti-science is your problem, not RFK's.
Actually that’s incorrect. There’s no consensus with multiple agencies coming to different conclusions ranging from maybe it was to we have no idea.
No one has found any smoking gun. But what is more telling is the conspiratards that dog pile on this topic as if the question of its origin somehow validates all their stupid bullshit over the past 3 years. It doesn’t, and all the anti mask anti vaccine idiots have blood on their hands that people like me will never, ever let them forget.
So until we find actual proof, this remains soundly in the category of unknowns.
He was talking about covid in the context of engineered bioweapons. That the virus has been more severe with people of color can, and has been explained by racial inequity and access to care.
"The overrepresentation of African Americans among confirmed COVID-19 cases and number of deaths underscores the fact that the coronavirus pandemic, far from being an equalizer, is amplifying or even worsening existing social inequalities tied to race, class, and access to the health care system." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7762908/#:~:text=Approximately 97.9 out of every,Asians (40.4 per 100%2C000).
What makes you think he was talking about covid in the context of engineered bioweapons?
He said "there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact."
You provided one such paper that shows that there are differences in how covid impacted different communities. Whether that's due to obesity rates, socioeconomic status or healthcare access.
"Kennedy later posted a video statement on Sunday, saying in part: "Nobody has suggested that these were deliberately engineered changes and I certainly don't believe that they were deliberately engineered,"
What does "targeted" mean?
select as an object of attention
Select? Attention? Hmm. That sounds like it has agency. But then a disease can't have agency, so it must be someone with agency using the disease. Almost as if it's a bioweapon.
If it's targeted, that is.
Sounds like the virus infecting an individual falls under targeting.
You're the only one suggesting it was a bio weapon.