Political Humor

820 readers

1 users here now

Welcome to Political Humor!

Rules:

Be excellent to each other.
No harassment.
No sexism, racism or bigotry.
All arguments should be made in good faith.
No misinformation. Be prepared to back up your factual claims with evidence.
All posts should relate to politics and be of a humorous nature.
No bots, spam or self-promotion.
If you want to run a bot, ask first.
Site wide rules apply.
Have fun.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

BuckRowdy

Diplomjodler3

it really do be like that tho (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by JimmyMemes to c/politicalhumor

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'm curious; I know that he's anti-vaccine and anti-nuclear, but how was he racist and antisemitic?

Edit: He said that COVID racially spared Jews and Asians, which I get maybe? But that was the only one I could find, and there are certainly far more award-worthy mouths.

[–] agent_flounder 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this will add a few more details that will be of help

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/19/robert-kennedy-jr-racist-antisemitic-xenophobic-views

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

So:

Claiming COVID is racist, as I said, including manipulating evidence
Associating with a pretty antisemitic rapper
Defending Roger Waters for donning a Nazi-esque costume in a Berlin event, which, knowing what actually happens in the album referenced, I don't see much problem with
Associating with "the Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, who regularly unleashed tirades about alleged Jewish control of media and government"
Being an exemplary of Godwin's Law (which I don't think is really antisemitic)

Besides association with two big antisemites, I really don't see much in that article

[–] Anticorp 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Allegedly he said that Chinese and Jewish people are more resistant to covid, but he claims he was misunderstood. That's all I could find, since those stories dominate the search engine results pages.

Edit: your edit popped up after I posted my response. I agree there are far worthier mouths, such as the person in the picture, and even he isn't the final award winner. Calling people racist seems to be a knee-jerk reaction these days.