Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied allegations of racism and anti-Semitism Saturday after he reportedly suggested Covid-19 could have been genetically engineered to reduce risks to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

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Racist tries to explain why they’re not racist by doubling down on racism

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Bigoted, unless you think Judaism is a race of people.

Edit: Race, ethnicity, heritage and immigration among U.S. Jews

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It’s both a religion and a race.

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Oh, so the artist Drake is the same race as Bernie Sanders. Interesting conclusion. Do you think they see themselves as the same race?

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Petty.

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As a Jew, I’d go with “bigoted” over “racist” to describe antisemites.

That being said, white supremacists see Jews like me as a different “race.” Despite my very white skin and Polish/Russian ancestry, a white supremacist wouldn’t say that my race is white/Caucasian. Instead, they’d say that my race is “Jewish.” So an antisemite could, in a way, be employing racism against Jews by their own definitions.

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How is it that conservatives think the left can’t see him as the plant that he is?

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Polling at 20% with Dems right now, but probably because they just see the last name and say they’d take him over Biden

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So, Trump then.

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Not sure how that’s the same. They see Kennedy and think of, y’know, the entire family of stable run-of-the-mill dems.

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Maybe he hopes Republicans will vote in the Democratic primaries and elect him.

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He’s still a Republican so at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter.

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Absolutely he is

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Seriously just fuck off into irrelevance already. Were it not for the Kennedy name no one would give two shits what this guy has to say about anything.

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A famous conspiracy theorist finally said something anti-Semitic, this is not at all surprising. Unfortunately it probably doesn’t bother anyone who already supports him.

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Uh… how were they not?

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