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<p>At an <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-gigantic-fart-derailed-rfk-jrs-nyc-press-dinner">off-the-rails event Tuesday in New York City</a>, notable anti-vaxxer and longshot 2024 Democratic presidential candidate <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/contrarian-defenses-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr-arent-brave-theyre-boring">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a> parroted what has been characterized as a white supremacist COVID-19 conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>“In fact, COVID-19, there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” Kennedy told a room full of press in a video obtained by the <em><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/">New York Post</a></em>. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/adl-warns-twitter-against-working-with-obvious-antisemite-tucker-carlson">Anti-Defamation League</a> and other organizations have previously identified those claims as one iteration of a baseless anti-semitic and sinophobic conspiracy theory voiced by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gops-going-full-white-nationalist-even-sooner-than-expected">white nationalists</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-covid-19-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews-and-chinese">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
“In fact, COVID-19, there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” Kennedy told a room full of press in a video obtained by the New York Post. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
The Anti-Defamation League and other organizations have previously identified those claims as one iteration of a baseless anti-semitic and sinophobic conspiracy theory voiced by white nationalists.
