Apparently, those of us who don’t think much of RFK Jr.’s ignorance about vaccines and pseudoscience often wondered if the rest of the Kennedy family agreed with him. His anti-vaccine beliefs are dangerous, and his close family must have thought he was pushing false information about vaccines. In an open letter to Politico on 8 May 2019, three members of the Kennedy family took RFK Jr out to the proverbial woodshed regarding his dangerous anti-vaccine views.
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RFK Jr stuck his foot in his mouth again, and once again the Kennedy family condemned his words. In this case, the Atlantic outlines Kennedy’s public comments that seem to be tinged with bigotry and anti-semitism:
[Recently], at a dinner event in Manhattan, the Democratic primary candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared his unvarnished thoughts about the nature of the coronavirus. “There’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” he explained, in remarks captured on video. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” To be sure, Kennedy added, “we don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not.” In other words, Kennedy apparently believes it is an open question whether the pandemic was engineered by a shadowy cabal to spare Chinese and Jewish people.
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And that’s when his family stepped in.
