• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Better question:

      Who is RFK Jr. and why should I care?

      Until right this instant I never knew the guy existed.

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        8 months ago

        Why, do your memories and Google not work?

        https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-accused-making-antisemitic-racist-claims-covid/story?id=101323851

        There’s a lot more to go into beyond the most recent and obvious, but it involves his deliberate targeting of the black community with misinformation and a discussion of historical usage of Great Replacement theories, historical dogwhistling, and other kinds of nuance that someone asking honest questions might be interested in.

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          " 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"

          https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1680227322509635595

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            8 months ago

            Yep, that’s what a lying racist who doesn’t know what he’s talking about sounds like when he gets called out.

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              8 months ago

              Yeah. In the original clip he only mentions Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese (nothing about Finns). He was shoehorning a conspiracy theory into conveniently chosen facts.