The New York Post reported that RFK Jr, at a fundraising dinner this week, made some very objectionable claims about Jews, the Chinese, and Covid.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Kennedy floated the idea during a question-and-answer portion of raucous booze and fart-filled dinner at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street.

“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“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,” Kennedy hedged.

The video of his remarks is embedded in the article. As many have noted, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has long been a skeptic of vaccines, especially childhood vaccines. He’s also not a fan of Anthony Fauci, but then again, neither are we. 

That said, his remarks about Covid being designed to ethnically target some races and not others was both asinine and dangerous. 

It’s especially dangerous because he is just feeding fuel into the fire. Anti-semitism has been on the rise in recent years all over the world. Furthermore, in the U.S., New York City in particular, attacks on Jews have escalated. 

So, for RFK Jr to spout this egregious drivel, also ignores the history of anti-semitism. Jews were persecuted during the Black Death era in the 1300’s, Russia committed large scale pogroms against Jews in the 1800’s, and then there were the Nazis. As an example, the Nazis created posters for display in Poland in the early 1940’s depicting Jews as carriers of lice and typhus. 

Keep in mind, the media has been either going after or refusing to air any of RFK’s remarks concerning vaccines and Covid vaccines. 

To their credit, the New York Post didn’t censor his remarks. Which, quite honestly is a good thing, as then we can know exactly what Kennedy is saying about vaccines, Covid, and more. 

Understandably, Kennedy is getting blasted from all sides for his abominable remarks. 

An Anti-Defamation League spokesperson, Jake Hyman, told The Washington Post on Saturday that Kennedy’s claim that the coronavirus may have been manipulated to pose less risk to Jews was a particularly hazardous form of conspiracy theory — one the group had yet to encounter.

“The claim that covid-19 was a bioweapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and Black people is deeply offensive and feeds into Sinophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theories,” Hyman said.

It is incredibly offensive and morally repugnant. 

This is insane. I’m dating a Jewish girl whose father was sadly killed by COVID. This is the dumbest conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard. Stop taking RFK Jr. seriously. https://t.co/QMYNvVXzsl

— Adar Rubin (@rubin_a1) July 15, 2023

His rhetoric on this should only be taken seriously in that it is dangerous and should be soundly denounced by EVERYONE.

I strongly denounce comments made earlier this week by RFK Jr. implying that Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese were relatively "spared" by COVID-19, while Caucasian and Black people were specifically targeted. Whether intentionally or not, his remarks amplify sinister and unfounded…

— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) July 15, 2023

Well now, after well-deserved backlash, RFK Jr is claiming that A. he didn’t really say what he said and B. no one should’ve known about his remarks because it was all “off the record.” 

The @nypost story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023

Here’s the full quote from his tweet:

The @nypost story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews. In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons. I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered. That study is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/

Nope, that explanation doesn’t cut it. He did say those things. And quite frankly, his clean up on aisle five doesn’t make anything better, just worse. 

There’s zero reason for RFK Jr to have spouted this dreck nor for him to claim it’s supposedly a medically proven theory based off a single study. Yet here we are. 

Yes, there is a lot of skepticism regarding Covid, its origins, and Covid vaccines. Our political powers that be – ALL of them – have contributed to the unease and skepticism. Irresponsible comments like this from Robert F. Kennedy does not help matters whatsoever. 

 To hell with his name, this guy is definitely NOT Presidential material. 

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