Well, it was only a matter of time.<\/p>\n
Sure, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s overperformance in the primary polls against President Joe Biden has been an embarrassment to the Democratic Party at large. However, for the most part, the Kennedy family has avoided talking about the candidacy like Biden avoids talking about the exact number of grandchildren he has.<\/p>\n
But that would only last as long as the RFK Jr. campaign stayed out of\u00a0real<\/em> controversy, which was inevitable, given who the candidate is; like him or not, Kennedy has been erroneously on the side of all<\/em> vaccine skepticism over the better part of his career, only to have the good fortune for the 2024 campaign to be the first presidential contest after the incumbent president tried to force Americans<\/a> to take a vaccine they had good reason to be skeptical of<\/em>, for a change.<\/p>\n So, after the first major controversy of his campaign \u2014 he was caught on video at a media event July 11 repeating a theory that COVID-19 might have been a Chinese bioweapon since a study has alleged the disease disproportionately affects those of Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish descent \u2014 it was perhaps predictable that members of the Kennedy family would come out to denounce their own.<\/p>\n Less predictable would be how they would be put on blast by social media in the wake of their denunciations, with one conservative critic calling the shaming of one\u2019s own family \u201cthe mark of totalitarian systems.\u201d<\/p>\n First, RFK Jr.\u2019s comments, first reported by the New York Post<\/a>: During what the Post\u2019s Jon Levine memorably described<\/a> as \u201cthe question-and-answer portion of raucous booze and fart-filled dinner\u201d in New York City, Kennedy said there was an argument COVID-19 was \u201cethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCOVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,\u201d the Democratic candidate added.<\/p>\n RFK Jr. says that COVID-19 was possibly a bioweapon designed to target white and black people.<\/p>\n He also said that the Chinese and Ashkenzai Jews were the most immune to the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n Thoughts? pic.twitter.com\/wzlOyPdiSR<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Censored Men (@CensoredMen) July 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n RFK Jr. denied that the statement was anti-Semitic, saying Sunday on Twitter that he never intended to float the idea that \u201ccoronavirus was a bioweapon made to kill white and black but spare Jews,\u201d as Levine allegedly asked his press office.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, saying that would be anti-Semitic,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t say that. Levine is fabricating an opinion, attributing it to me, and trolling for scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, saying that would be anti-Semitic. But I didn\u2019t say that. Levine is fabricating an opinion, attributing it to me, and trolling for scandal.<\/p>\n \u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cBy cynically leveling anti-Semitism charges, Levine devalues the term at a time when REAL anti-Semitism is rampant,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s more, by using a racially-charged term, \u2018sparing Jews,\u2019 with its Biblical reference to Exodus, he is inflaming fear, hate, and suspicion.\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, by using a racially-charged term, \u201csparing Jews,\u201d with its Biblical reference to Exodus, he is inflaming fear, hate, and suspicion.<\/p>\n \u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Kennedy had previously taken to Twitter on Saturday to cite a 2021 study on COVID-19 as a \u201cproof of concept\u201d that bioweapons could be used to target specific ethnic groups.<\/p>\n That study found<\/a>, among other things, that \u201cdeleterious variants\u201d in ACE2 receptors \u2014 where the SARS-CoV-2 virus \u201clatches\u201d onto, so to speak \u2014 were highest in \u201cAfrican-American\u201d and \u201cNon-Finnish European \u2026 populations,\u201d relatively lower among East\/South Asian and \u201cLatino\/Admixed American\u201d populations, and lowest among the Amish and Ashkenazi Jewish populations.<\/p>\n The paper was authored by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic and Columbia University and funded by, inter alia, a grant from the National Institutes of Health, so this is hardly a fringe study by any stretch of the imagination.<\/p>\n The @nypost<\/a> story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out \u2014 during an off-the-record conversation \u2014 that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n In a separate tweet, Kennedy also pointed toward \u201c[c]opious documentation that yes, U.S. and China have both been developing bioweapons targeted at various genetic groups,\u201d pointing toward a Substack post by Dr. Peter McCullough, another COVID-19 vaccine skeptic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copious documentation that yes, U.S. and China have both been developing bioweapons targeted at various genetic groups.https:\/\/t.co\/i3ImFEL9XT<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Now, how you feel about RFK Jr.\u2019s<\/a> remarks is one thing. How you feel about his sister and nephew coming out and denouncing him is another thing entirely.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Kerry Kennedy \u2014 another one of Robert F. Kennedy Sr.\u2019s children and a human rights activist \u2014 telling the world, \u201cI STRONGLY condemn my brother\u2019s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHis statements do not represent what I believe or what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stands for, with our 50+ year track record of protecting rights and standing against racism and all forms of discrimination,\u201d she continued on Twitter \u2014 along with posting a link to a statement from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation saying, well, exactly that.<\/p>\n His statements do not represent what I believe or what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stands for, with our 50+ year track record of protecting rights and standing against racism and all forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n \u2014 Kerry Kennedy (@KerryKennedyRFK) July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Meanwhile, former Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts \u2014 currently the U.S. special envoy to Northern Ireland and RFK Jr.\u2019s nephew \u2014 had this to say: \u201cMy uncle\u2019s comments were hurtful and wrong. I unequivocally condemn what he said.\u201d<\/p>\n My uncle\u2019s comments were hurtful and wrong. I unequivocally condemn what he said.<\/p>\n \u2014 Joe Kennedy III (@joekennedy) July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n However, all this served to do is take some of the heat off RFK Jr. and place it on Kerry Kennedy<\/a> and Joe Kennedy III.<\/p>\n \u201cLook at these terrible family members,\u201d former Fox News host and current SiriusXM podcaster Megyn Kelly<\/a> tweeted Monday. \u201cNo one was asking \u2018how does RFKJ\u2019s sister feel about his latest remarks?\u2019 She just felt the need to kick @RobertKennedyJr when he was down. Nice.\u201d<\/p>\n Look at these terrible family members. No one was asking \u201chow does RFKJ\u2019s sister feel about his latest remarks?\u201d She just felt the need to kick @RobertKennedyJr<\/a> when he was down. Nice. https:\/\/t.co\/sYR2ZtQNFm<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cThe Kennedy family got the memo from The Party,\u201d said Breitbart editor and SiriusXM host Joel Pollak<\/a>, quote-tweeting Joe Kennedy III. \u201cThey are attacking RFK Jr. for something that he didn\u2019t actually say. It is the mark of totalitarian systems that they are able to exploit family and intimate relationships to persecute dissidents on the basis of false accusations.\u201d<\/p>\n The Kennedy family got the memo from The Party. They are attacking RFK Jr. for something that he didn\u2019t actually say. It is the mark of totalitarian systems that they are able to exploit family and intimate relationships to persecute dissidents on the basis of false accusations. https:\/\/t.co\/wxRdx1bVyv<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u201cHonestly, why wouldn\u2019t voters distrust the ruling class when they see them willing to sacrifice their own to preserve their social station?\u201d tweeted conservative pundit and podcaster Rich Paris, again sharing Joe Kennedy III\u2019s<\/a> post. \u201cWhat wouldn\u2019t they do to normies they don\u2019t even know if they\u2019re perfectly fine throwing their own blood under the bus over a media smear?\u201d<\/p>\n Honestly, why wouldn\u2019t voters distrust the ruling class when they see them willing to sacrifice their own to preserve their social station?<\/p>\n What wouldn\u2019t they do to normies they don\u2019t even know if they\u2019re perfectly fine throwing their own blood under the bus over a media smear? https:\/\/t.co\/2o0Brg4DcV<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Rich Baris \u201cThe People\u2019s Pundit\u201d (@Peoples_Pundit) July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n Well, that\u2019s exactly the message the establishment of both parties wants to send to the \u201cnormies\u201d: Stay down there and keep quiet. Keep real quiet. Else, the full weaponry of the system will be arrayed against you.<\/p>\n This is not to stand in RFK Jr.\u2019s corner when it comes to his statements; he is a man who is, I repeat, frequently wrong when it comes to diseases and vaccines for them, and who found himself at a time and a place where the stopped clock happened to be stuck on the correct hour.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also a source of endless entertainment to me to watch professional Democrats tear their own hair out over his relative popularity in polls for a fringe candidate as they somehow wonder why Joe Biden isn\u2019t more popular<\/a>.<\/p>\n That being said, his statements \u2014 kooky though one may believe them to be \u2014 weren\u2019t facially vile, racist or anti-Semitic, nor is this a man who has a history of bigotry. In fact, the Democratic Party has elected officials who it will vigorously defend<\/a> despite more obvious and frequently repeated evidence of racism<\/a> or anti-Semitism (cough, cough<\/em>, Ilhan Omar<\/a>, cough<\/em>).<\/p>\n Kennedy might expose Joe Biden\u2019s flaws, though \u2014 so, naturally, we have to have an internecine squabble between members of the family on Twitter. And somebody thought this was going to erode RFK Jr.\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n Therein lies the issue with Kennedy-on-Kennedy violence, however: RFK Jr. is already an anti-establishment candidate, despite coming from the ultimate establishment Democrat family. If his siblings and other relatives want to take jabs at their own, they should understand from their comments on Twitter in the wake of this controversy that they\u2019re just lending RFK Jr. authority, not taking it away.<\/p>\n The uniparty is real, and this is yet more proof.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Kennedy Family Members Put on Blast for How They Are Treating RFK Jr.: \u2018The Mark of Totalitarian Systems\u2019<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, it was only a matter of time. Sure, Robert F. 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