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Global ResearchJul 03, 2023
RFK Jr. Criticized for Suggesting COVID is 'Ethnically Targeted'
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The Facts
During remarks made at a gathering over the weekend and recorded on video, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ("RFK Jr.") claimed that COVID disproportionately affected Caucasian and Black people compared to East Asians and Ashkenazi Jews.
RFK Jr. claimed that COVID could have been "targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people" while saying that "Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese" were most immune. While he said it's unknown whether the disease was "deliberately targeted or not," he claimed that the US and China are developing "ethnic bioweapons."
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
RFK Jr. has spent his career on the conspiratorial fringes of the political world, and it's only a matter of time before a figure on the margins wades into antisemitism. Centuries of hateful rhetoric about Jewish control of politics, medicine, and finance have become embedded in the DNA of conspiracy theories, and it's inevitable that a man who believes that antidepressants cause mass shootings and that Wi-Fi causes cancer will happen upon antisemitism. His conspiratorial thinking has pulled him into dark and hateful territory.
Establishment-critical narrative
We must judge a person by their actions, not their words. RFK Jr. has been a steadfast supporter of the Jewish people and the state of Israel, and comments taken out of context for the sake of a headline do not change that commitment. The media, by and large, is ignoring Kennedy's real point about the disparities of the COVID pandemic, and the unanswered questions about why some groups suffered so greatly. Instead of focusing on the real issues, the media has gone full steam ahead with a baseless smear.
