Robert F. Kennedy Jr recently appeared for a hearing in the House of Representatives in which he spoke about censorship and called out the dangerous ramifications of what is going on with the US government, namely the slow but steady drift toward totalitarianism.
His comments on the matter of censorship came when he was asked about the dangers of not being able to call out the weaponization of the government by Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida. Responding, Mr. Kennedy noted that those doing the censoring are the bad guys of history, as they’re generally standing on the side of using political repression to keep their enemies quiet.
Speaking on the matter, RFK Jr. first noted that a censorship regime give the government cover to commit whatever atrocities against its population that it wants, saying, “A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity. It is the beginning of totalitarianism. There’s never been a time in history when we look back, and the guys who were censoring people were the good guys.”
Continuing, he noted that the great authors of the 20th century who became famous for their novels about totalitarian regimes said the same thing about censorship: it leads to totalitarianism. In his words: “All of us grew up reading Arthur Koestler, Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and they were all saying the same thing: once you start censoring, you’re on your way to dystopia and totalitarianism.”
Mr. Kennedy also said during the hearing that his political opponents continually misrepresent what he says about controversial topics in an attempt to get the tech companies to censor him. Speaking on that, he said, “My views are constantly misrepresented, so that the truth of what I believe, we are not allowed to have a conversation about with the American people.”
Continuing, he accused Rep. Stacey Plaskett from the Virgin Islands of “defamations and malignancies” that he claimed “are used to censor me to prevent people from listening to the actual things that I am saying.”
The latest remark he made that drew leftist condemnation and calls for censorship was a series of claims about how Covid-19 infected and harmed different ethnic groups. Speaking about that at a dinner, he said, “There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. The races that are most immune to Covid 19 — because of the structure, the genetic structure, the genetic differentials of different races, of the receptors … Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted with that or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.”
Defending those comments on Fox News, Mr. Kennedy said that he was describing the results of a study that said “that certain races were more affected by Covid than other races. …I was not saying that this was something that had been deliberately done.”
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