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RFK Jr. denies comments on ‘ethnically targeted’ Covid-19 were anti-Semitic (www.politico.com)

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied allegations of racism and anti-Semitism Saturday after he reportedly suggested Covid-19 could have been genetically engineered to reduce risks to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

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[-] Savaran@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Racist tries to explain why they’re not racist by doubling down on racism

[+] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bigoted, unless you think Judaism is a race of people.

Edit: Race, ethnicity, heritage and immigration among U.S. Jews

[-] kalanthil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

It’s both a religion and a race.

[+] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -24 points 1 year ago

Oh, so the artist Drake is the same race as Bernie Sanders. Interesting conclusion. Do you think they see themselves as the same race?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Why does this matter?

[-] wtvr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I'll give you my perspective as a jew. I can't speak for either Drake or Bernie but I see them both as members of the Jewish race. People can be multiethnic.

[-] kalanthil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are common alleles in ethnically Jewish people. These alleles cross not only countries, but also regions around the world.

I don’t know if they consider one another the same race. Whether they do or not doesn’t matter to me.

Also, TIL Drake is Jewish.

Edit: You can learn more about the allele here.

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You're looking at race in an American way, not a scientific way. Drake and Bernie would share a enough DNA that if you just looked on paper you would be able to see they have a shared genetic history at one point. Drake is partially Ashkenazi Jew like Bernie is.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

The scientific way would be to admit we are all humans and race is made up as a means to create divisions.

[-] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Do you think because drake is black and sanders isn’t that they can’t have the same ancestries? Because that’s hilarious and I’d love to hear more stuff like that please.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

How is it that conservatives think the left can’t see him as the plant that he is?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Polling at 20% with Dems right now, but probably because they just see the last name and say they’d take him over Biden

[-] starlinguk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

So, Trump then.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure how that’s the same. They see Kennedy and think of, y’know, the entire family of stable run-of-the-mill dems.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe he hopes Republicans will vote in the Democratic primaries and elect him.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

He’s still a Republican so at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely he is

[-] EtherealZucchini@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Seriously just fuck off into irrelevance already. Were it not for the Kennedy name no one would give two shits what this guy has to say about anything.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

A famous conspiracy theorist finally said something anti-Semitic, this is not at all surprising. Unfortunately it probably doesn't bother anyone who already supports him.

[-] moosh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Uh… how were they not?

[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

RFK Jr. Denies comments on 'ethnically targeted' COVID-19 were anti-Semitic.

Lol k, I'm sure he does.

[-] rarely@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

This man looks like a pile of shit. Is that what not vaccinating your children / a lifetime of stupidity does to you? Big yikes.

[-] So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with your face?!?

[-] rarely@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

My face is fine, it's my working brain you should be afraid of.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Well yes, deniability is the whole point of a dog-whistle.

[-] Poob@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

He's not mad we think he's racist, he's mad we called him racist

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