Kerry Kennedy, the sister of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , criticized his baseless comments at a press dinner last week, where she claimed COVID-19 “ethnically attacks” certain groups.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , a well-known conspiracy theorist who has expressed his stance against vaccines, claimed in a now-viral video received through the New York Post that the virus has a “genetic structure” that is used “to attack Caucasians. “and blacks.
On Monday, his sister, the president of the nonprofit Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, issued a reaction to her brother’s questionable comments at the press dinner, which has already been publicly marred by alcohol and flatulence.
“I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and misleading comments last week about covid being designed for ethnic attacks,” he said. registration of rights to protect and combat racism and any bureaucracy of discrimination”.
His nephew, former Congressman Joe Kennedy III, criticized the presidential candidate’s lunchtime tirade on Monday.
“My uncle’s comments are hurtful and false. I unequivocally condemn what he said,” his Twitter post read.
At the dinner, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also baselessly claimed that “the other most immune people are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. “
Later in his trip, he added that he wasn’t sure whether blacks and whites were being “deliberately targeted or not. “
Absolutely disgusting and crazy. The @nypost received a video of a recent occasion from RFK Jr. where COVID is an “ethnically targeted” Chinese bioweapon to “attack Caucasians and blacks” and save “Ashkenazi and Chinese Jews. “He then falsely claimed that. . . pic. twitter. com/reTqaEc1aL
The Democratic presidential candidate also claimed that the U. S. is not in the U. S. The U. S. government was investing in efforts, adding labs in Ukraine that were looking to buy Russian DNA, “so we can target other people through race. “The BBC reported in 2022 that there was no evidence for the claim that the US and Ukraine were racing to create biological weapons.
Similarly, experts have denounced the idea that COVID-19 “targets” certain ethnic groups.
“Consensus sequences of Jewish or Chinese proteases are one thing in biochemistry, but they are one thing in racism and anti-Semitism,” Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan, said Saturday on Twitter.
On the same day, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee and former U. S. Representative Ted Deutch tweeted in reaction to the presidential candidate’s comments, calling them “deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous. “
“Every facet of his comments reflects some of the most egregious anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in history and contributes to the damage of current anti-Semitism,” Deutch wrote.
RFK Jr. has attracted for its outlandish claims in the past.
At an anti-vaccine rally in 2022, he said “Hitler’s Germany” had more flexible restrictions than those imposed on the US. He was in the U. S. at the height of the pandemic, something that even prompted his wife’s complaint.