Insaneworld
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I did look more into this a few weeks ago, since the vaccine comments are his biggest flaw in my view. That said, I don't think he is anti-vax, but skeptical of the long-term effects of vaccines, and of the corporations that make money off of these vaccines.
For example, a lot was made about the comments on covid and Jewish people. The article you linked has a little bit on that:
'Kennedy’s recent comments that COVID-19 could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people — which he denies were antisemitic but concedes he should have worded more carefully — also drew a condemnation from his sister Kerry Kennedy.'
If you look at the actual comment here, he says at 1:17 that 'we don't know if it was deliberately targeted', after the bits that gave us headlines about RFK. He is sloppily, but in a private setting, discussing the idea that covid does (naturally) affect different groups differently, from differences in receptors between different races. But the media is happy to summarize it in the least favorable way, like many do with Trump.
He should generally be more careful of how he speaks, since he's fairly famous and a lot of nuances will be lost when things are reported, or people summarize something for themselves. Still though, his actual positions on Ukraine and vaccines (by his own words) are not ones I share or see positively, but like I said in the other post, I really value that RFK does not attack either side the way democrats or republicans do, and really tries to unite people despite political differences. I think that's something missing that will lead to real trouble down the line, if we can't learn to do that again.
