Jr. referred to the Holocaust at an anti-vax rally, and now the couple is attempting to tweet through the controversy.
It is ill-advised to descend upon our nation’s capital in a crowd of thousands of anti-vaxxers to protest vaccine mandates in the middle of an ongoing covid-19
surge, potentially exposing one’s self to the virus in question. It is also ill-advised to then compare the resistance to vaccine mandates to the plight of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who died in a concentration camp in the midst of the Holocaust.Yet, this was exactly what famed conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did on Sunday. By Tuesday, he was claiming he was veryfor hurting the feelings of Holocaust survivors.
For those of you who have blocked tweets referring to any sort of Holocaust denial or casual anti-Semitism, Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and son of Robert F. Kennedy, was promptly and appropriatelythis week for telling a crowd of protestors that the plight of today’s anti-vaxxers is comparable to that of Anne Frank’s in Nazi Germany.
The remarks were swiftly lambasted on a widespread scale, prompting the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to issue a: “Making reckless comparisons to the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews, for a political agenda is outrageous and deeply offensive. Those who carelessly invoke Anne Frank, the star badge, and the Nuremberg Trials exploit history and the consequences of hate.”
On Monday night, Hines, who is employed by Jewish actor and director Larry David on the show “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” took her first stab at a half-hearted apology—not
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