American anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized on Tuesday for suggesting that things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, a teenager at her Amsterdam home with her family in a Nazi concentration camp. I died after hiding in a secret annex. for two years.
Kennedy’s remarks, which were made at a rally in Washington on Sunday by his non-vaccine nonprofit group, were widely condemned as offensive, derogatory and historically ignorant. It is the second time since 2015 that Kennedy has apologized for mentioning the Holocaust while sowing doubts and mistrust about vaccines in the course of his work.
“I apologize for the reference to Anne Frank, especially to families who face the horrors of the Holocaust,” Kennedy said in a tweet Tuesday morning. “My intention was to use examples of past vandalism to show the dangers posed by new techniques of control. I am truly and deeply sorry for the extent to which my comment has hurt.”
Kennedy’s wife, HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines distanced herself from her husband his own tweet After about 20 minutes. She called the reference to Anne Frank “scandalous and insensitive”.
Hines tweeted, “The atrocities suffered by millions during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinion is not a reflection of my own.”
Kennedy, the nephew of US President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother, former US Attorney General, civil rights activist and Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy, complained on Sunday that the nation’s leading infectious disease physician, Anthony Fauci , was organizing “fascism”.
“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank,” he told the crowd.
An investigation by The Associated Press last month found that Kennedy invoked the ghosts of the Nazis and the Holocaust when talking about public health measures, such as masks or vaccines, to save lives during pandemics. mandate is required.
Last month, for example, he put out a video showing Fauci in Hitler’s mustache. In an October speech to the Ron Paul Institute, he compared public health measures taken by governments around the world to Nazi propaganda meant to intimidate people into giving up on critical thinking.
Kennedy apologized in 2015 after using the word “Holocaust” to describe children he believed were hurt by vaccines.
In his Tuesday apology, Kennedy did not address his previous calls for the Nazis, Hitler, and the Holocaust when discussing vaccines. Representatives from her nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, did not return emails asking about her previous comments.
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