If you design a virus?
Why not tweek it just a tad to be way more lethal in certain ethnic categories, if our Era science can even achieve that goal?
I have no idea at all.

Mr. Jones wrote:

I didn't see anywhere where Kennedy said the WUHAN Virus was designed to give the Chinese and Jews an economic advantage. That must have been something you read between the lines in your legal weasel mind just like that antisemitic and racist schtick.
You better go hide because I'm sure you're feeling threatened as a minority by his wurds.

RayR wrote:

I was wrong on the Chinese economic adantage allegation.

But, you need to read this again:

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced a dangerous conspiracy theory this week that the coronavirus could have been a bioweapon “deliberately targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people [/h]while disproportionately attacking White and Black people"....

"His remarks at the gathering... amplify racist and antisemitic tropes, including theories that blame Jews for the spread of the coronavirus to expand influence and financial gain...."

rfenst wrote:

I was wrong on the Chinese economic adantage allegation.

But, you need to read this again:

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced a dangerous conspiracy theory this week that the coronavirus could have been a bioweapon “deliberately targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people [/h]while disproportionately attacking White and Black people"....

"His remarks at the gathering... amplify racist and antisemitic tropes, including theories that blame Jews for the spread of the coronavirus to expand influence and financial gain...."

rfenst wrote:

Sorry Robert. I don’t connect the dots. Are we not allowed to discuss certain issues? It seems to me he says that there is evidence of. To me that’s not the same as him saying something is definitive. Besides I think it’s a very bad thing when we as a society say we can’t discuss certain topics because it may offend this group or that one.

Abrignac wrote:

I already went over the hit-piece propaganda words in #37.
Accusations by LEFTY activists that RFK Jr. "advanced a dangerous conspiracy theory" and amplified "racist and antisemitic tropes" don't make it so. They make false associations with RFK Jr. and some unnamed conspiracy theorists. If there is any smidgen of truth, they'll stretch it totally out of proportion to where there is no truth at all, they weaponize words to use against their victim, it's their modus operandi.

RayR wrote:

I do not believe in squelching free speech, especially political speech, but I am concerned with highly likely prejudicial/dangerous comments like that- about any group- when there is no proof given. "There is a study" or the like... doesn't cut it. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But, a comment like that should be held up to intellectual scrutiny hard and fast.

There is also a limit to free speech (hate speech being one) that has not been reached here yet, but which is of great concern given Kennedy's long history of bigoted comments.

If people want to believe Ashkenazi Jews were “deliberately targeted” to be spared, that's fine- even if they are wrong. But, that is a dangerous accusation in society by a popular candidate during turbulent times.

Antisemitism and racial hatred and crimes against others has increased markedly over the last several years. It doesn't take much to extrapolate from his words that Jews might have had something to do with the covid virus' creation. There are too many rich examples in history of what the consequences from language like that might be.

Words can have serious consequences. I am just pointing out the detail of what he said. Nothing more. Certainly no squelching under the circumstances.

Nevertheless, he needs to be call out on this kind of crap if he wants to be President.

rfenst wrote:

Leading House Democrats distanced themselves Monday from top progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s characterization of Israel as a “racist state” over the weekend as official Washington prepares for a visit by the Jewish state’s president, Isaac Herzog.

Jayapal (D-Wash.), who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, made the controversial retort while seeking to assuage protesters at the progressive Netroots Nation conference on Saturday. She later walked the comment back, but party leaders quickly tried to make clear she didn’t speak for them.

“Israel is not a racist state,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement.

“As a Jewish and Democratic nation, Israel was founded 75 years ago on the principle of complete equality of social and political rights for all of its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex, as codified in its Declaration of Independence.”

More...

https://nypost.com/2023/07/17/democrats-denounce-rep-jayapals-calling-israel-a-racist-state/ 

MAs far as hate speech is concerned, oh well. Who gets to decide what is hate and what is not? Sorry but, we need to learn to toughen up and quit getting butt hurt by what every Tom,****** or Hairy says. In the grand scheme of things we have much bigger fish to fry.

Abrignac wrote:

He will be inconsequential in 2024. He is bombastic, and a liar. Truth is not important to him. This is shaking out to be Biden and Trump 2. By backing Trump no matter what the Republicans are making a massive strategic mistake. The door has been opened for a blue tide. The Democrats may end up with the House, the Senate with a super majority, and the presidency. If this happens SCOTUS members could be impeached and convicted. None of the above is good for our country. The game within the game really has very little to do with Trump, as he is unelectable.

Speyside2 wrote:

Spey isn’t gonna like the next election.

ZRX1200 wrote:

Congressional Democrats have attempted to bury Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in an avalanche of racism and pseudoscience allegations concerning his statements about COVID-19 — after unsuccessfully trying to get him disinvited before – and during – Thursday's hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government.

Their Republican colleagues expressed glee at the optics of Democrats seemingly trying to censor a repeat victim of government-tinged censorship — a "Disinformation Dozen" member challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination — at a hearing on that very issue.

"You can't make this stuff up," Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) said, and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) marveled at what he called the "irony and cognitive dissonance" of the subcommittee minority.

Democrats tried a similar discrediting tactic at a COVID origins hearing this year against former New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade, who helped verify the legitimacy of the lab-leak theory, for his 2014 book on the "genetic basis of race."

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https://justthenews.com/government/congress/defamations-dems-pile-rfk-jr-racist-antisemite-after-censorship-hearing