{"id":583223,"date":"2023-07-18T00:37:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ex-rep-joe-kennedy-blasts-rfk-jr-over-hurtful-and-wrong-remarks\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T00:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:37:31","slug":"ex-rep-joe-kennedy-blasts-rfk-jr-over-hurtful-and-wrong-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ex-rep-joe-kennedy-blasts-rfk-jr-over-hurtful-and-wrong-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ex-Rep Joe Kennedy blasts RFK Jr over \u2018hurtful and wrong\u2019 remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) Monday joined other family members in publicly condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s recent remarks on COVID-19, which became public over the weekend and were widely criticized as antisemitic and anti-Asian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy uncle\u2019s comments were hurtful and wrong,\u201d the 42-year-old former congressman <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joekennedy\/status\/1681023900459704321?s=20\">wrote in a tweet<\/a> Monday. \u201cI unequivocally condemn what he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s sister, also publicly condemned the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strongly condemn my brother\u2019s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting,\u201d Kennedy said in a statement Monday through her family\u2019s nonprofit organization, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis statements do not represent what I believe or what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stand for, with our 50+-year track record of protecting rights and standing against racism and all forms of discrimination.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RFK Jr. is facing mounting criticism from Democratic leaders after the New York Post reported on Kennedy\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n<p>In an audio recording obtained by the Post, Kennedy said the virus was a genetically engineered bioweapon that could have been \u201cethnically targeted\u201d to prevent the deaths of Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are deeply troubling comments and I want to make clear that they do not represent the views of the Democratic Party,\u201d Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Jaime Harrison <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harrisonjaime\/status\/1680364905923215360?s=46&amp;t=q6FO_6WynrmCDC0F9lD-bg\">tweeted in response<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Kennedy, who announced his 2024 presidential campaign in April, has long been a prominent vaccine skeptic. He has also repeatedly been criticized for promulgating conspiracy theories. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> removed an interview between Kennedy and Jordan Peterson last month for violating its guidelines against vaccine misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s personal Instagram account was reinstated last month after he was permanently removed from the platform in 2021 for repeatedly posting misinformation about COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) Monday joined other family members in publicly condemning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s recent remarks on COVID-19, which became public over the weekend and were widely criticized as antisemitic and anti-Asian. \u201cMy uncle\u2019s comments were hurtful and wrong,\u201d the 42-year-old former congressman wrote in a tweet Monday. \u201cI unequivocally condemn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":583224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/kennedy_joe_09012020_AP22353691985729.png?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[78209,134343,78304,104921,90482,133498,124783,137404,144542,95223,97626,115,144537,91516,4965],"class_list":["post-583223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-campaign","tag-covid-19-pandemic","tag-democratic-national-committee","tag-house","tag-in-the-know","tag-international","tag-jaime-harrison","tag-joe-kennedy-iii","tag-jordan-peterson","tag-kerry-kennedy","tag-news","tag-robert-f-kennedy-human-rights","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}