{"id":1974472,"date":"2023-07-16T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-pushes-back-after-saying-covid-ethnically-targeted-to-not-impact-jews-chinese-as-bad-as-whites-blacks\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T17:32:52","slug":"rfk-jr-pushes-back-after-saying-covid-ethnically-targeted-to-not-impact-jews-chinese-as-bad-as-whites-blacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-pushes-back-after-saying-covid-ethnically-targeted-to-not-impact-jews-chinese-as-bad-as-whites-blacks\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. defends statement on COVID&#8217;s alleged ethnic targeting, claims it affects all races equally."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-pushes-back-after-saying-covid-ethnically-targeted-to-not-impact-jews-chinese-as-bad-as-whites-blacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1974472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Robert F. Kennedy\u200d Jr. Stands\u2064 Firm on \u200dControversial COVID Remarks<\/h2>\n<p>Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u200d is not backing down\u2063 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-health-officials-refuse-to-reveal-data-behind-lockdown-reversal\/\" title=\"Calif. health officials refuse to reveal data behind lockdown reversal\">facing backlash<\/a> \u200dfor his\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-cori-bush-rushes-to-defense-of-very-violent-criminals-rioting-attacking-guard-in-jail\/\" title=\"Democrat Cori Bush Rushes To Defense Of \u2018Very Violent\u2019 Criminals Rioting, Attacking Guard In Jail\">recent remarks<\/a> on COVID-19. At a press event last week, \u200bKennedy claimed that\u2062 the virus was &#8220;ethnically targeted,&#8221; sparking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-post-trump-gop\/\" title=\"The Post-Trump GOP\">heated debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> \u200b<\/p>\n<p>The New York\u2064 Post&#8217;s \u200bJon \u200bLevine <a \u2064href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/15\/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews\/\">reported<\/a> that \u200bKennedy made these comments at Tony&#8217;s\u200c Di\u200b Napoli, a\u200c popular\u2063 Italian\u2064 restaurant in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;COVID-19, there is\u200c an argument \u2064that it\u2063 is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-floats-idea-covid-19-was-targeted-to-attack-white-people-and-spare-jews-report\/\" title=\"RFK Jr suggests COVID-19 targeted whites, spared Jews: Report\">races disproportionately<\/a>,&#8221; Kennedy \u2064asserted. &#8220;COVID-19\u2063 is \u200btargeted to\u200d attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are\u2064 most\u2064 immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2063 <\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging that there is no conclusive evidence \u2064of\u200d deliberate targeting,\u2064 Kennedy\u2064 pointed to\u2063 research \u200bpapers that suggest racial\u2062 and ethnic disparities in the impact of the \u200bvirus.<\/p>\n<p> \u200b<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Kennedy \u2064raised concerns about \u200dcommunist China collecting DNA \u200dfrom \u2063nations worldwide to potentially \u200c&#8221;target\u200d people\u200b by \u200brace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As expected,\u2062 Kennedy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-pushes-back-after-saying-covid-ethnically-targeted-to-not-impact-jews-chinese-as-bad-as-whites-blacks\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. defends statement on COVID's alleged ethnic targeting, claims it affects all races equally.\">remarks drew \u200bstrong criticism online<\/a>. Dr. \u2064Monica\u200d Gandhi,\u2064 a\u200d professor of \u2063medicine and\u200c infectious disease\u200d at\u200d the \u2064University\u200d of California, and a \u200bvocal \u200copponent of school closures\u200c during\u200c the pandemic, responded to\u200b Kennedy&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p> \u200b<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, no, no, \u2062no, no,&#8221; she firmly stated. &#8220;I\u200d don&#8217;t see\u2062 any evidence \u2064that\u2063 there\u200c was\u2062 any \u2064design or bioterrorism to selectively \u2062harm \u200ccertain\u200d groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2062 <\/p>\n<p>Despite Kennedy&#8217;s insistence\u200d that \u2063the\u200c event was meant to be &#8220;OFF-THE-RECORD,&#8221; organizer Doug Dechert\u200b and another attendee confirmed that the comments \u200cwere indeed on the record, \u2064contradicting Kennedy&#8217;s claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u2064 <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u200d took\u200c to\u2062 Twitter to criticize Jon Levine \u200bfor his article and for suggesting \u2064that his remarks \u200dcould\u200b be\u200c seen \u200bas antisemitic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2062 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, saying\u200d that would be anti-Semitic. But I\u200d didn&#8217;t \u2064say that.\u200b Levine is\u2063 fabricating an opinion, attributing it to me, and trolling for scandal,&#8221; Kennedy \u200cresponded.<\/p>\n<p>Many prominent\u200b figures from across \u2062the political spectrum condemned Kennedy&#8217;s remarks, \u200blabeling them as either deranged or anti-Semitic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\"\u2064 data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p \u2063lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Of course, saying that would\u2064 be\u200d anti-Semitic. But I didn&#8217;t say that. Levine is \u2064fabricating an opinion, attributing\u2064 it to me, and trolling for scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert \u2064F. Kennedy Jr \u200c(@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1680585766861242369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16,\u200c 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> \u200d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2064 argued that the report \u200bundermined the seriousness\u2063 of &#8220;real anti-Semitism&#8221; that is prevalent\u2063 today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I demand the editors of the @nypost retract, \u200band that\u2064 @LevineJonathan apologize for this false, underhanded,\u2062 and \u200binflammatory article,&#8221; Kennedy concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended himself on Sunday following criticism for his comments suggesting COVID was &#8220;ethnically targeted&#8221; towards Jewish and Chinese communities, causing less harm to white and black populations. The New York Post&#8217;s Jon reported on the backlash Kennedy faced after his remarks at a press event last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1974473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}