Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under fire after he floated a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is “ethnically targeted” to disproportionately attack white and Black people while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people are most immune.
Fellow Democrats, civil rights advocates and even members of his own family are excoriating presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he floated a conspiracy theory over the weekend that COVID-19 is “ethnically targeted” to disproportionately attack white and Black people while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people are most immune.Democrats, civil rights advocates and even members of his own family are excoriating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A group of more than 100 House Democrats on Tuesday urged House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to disinvite Kennedy from testifying on Capitol Hill this weekthe first to report“COVID-19 — there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
: “Vile antisemitic tropes and Sinophobia in RFK, Jr’s mouth diarrhea here. Insulted countless families who lost loved ones to the virus.”Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., who was born in Taiwan,, “Millions and millions of people died from COVID-19 worldwide, including Americans who were Jewish or of Chinese descent.”
Three of Kennedy’s relatives — sister Kerry, brother Joseph II and nephew Joseph III — all publicly denounced the remarks. He claimed he was quoting a peer-reviewed paper that examined genetic susceptibility of COVID-19. The paper he linked to in his tweet, however, was published in July 2020, in the early months of the pandemic, and makes no reference to the virus “targeting” certain demographics.
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