Highlights from RFK Jr.’s House Testimony on Censorship

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A July 20 House Judiciary Committee hearing examining the federal government’s role in censoring Americans Democrats was marked by explosive exchanges between Democrats and Republicans about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments on vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The forum also included discussion about social media companies’ handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and government efforts to work with social media companies to remove “disinformation” and “misinformation.”

Mr. Kennedy, who is challenging President Joe Biden for the party’s 2024 nomination, was a star witness at the hearing on the weaponization of the federal government.

Republicans defended Mr. Kennedy and charged the Democrats’ outcry over his presence at the hearing as “censorship.” Democrats criticized Republicans for giving Mr. Kennedy a “megaphone” to talk about his views on vaccines.

Here are six key highlights from the hearing:

Attempt to ‘Censor a Censorship Hearing’

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is the House Judiciary Committee chair, and in the lead-up to the hearing, House Democrats urged him to cancel Mr. Kennedy’s testimony.

In a secretly recorded video last week, Mr. Kennedy was heard describing how research showed COVID-19 virus disproportionately affected Caucasian and black people while being comparably mild for Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, who Mr. Kennedy suggested had a stronger immune response to the virus. Mr. Kennedy also mentioned how bioweapons could potentially be designed to harm certain ethnic groups over others.

Democrats and other Mr. Kennedy critics condemned the comments as “racist” and “antisemitic.”

On Twitter, Mr. Kennedy said he “never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews” and called for a newspaper article on the video that he said was “false, underhanded, and inflammatory” to be retracted.

In her opening remarks, Ranking Member Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) accused committee Republicans of giving a platform to “hateful, evidence-free rhetoric” and “conspiracy theories.”

Ms. Plaskett said she was “appalled” that “we are creating a platform for this kind of discussion—not about free speech … but the content of some of that speech that we are amplifying in this room.”

Mr. Kennedy’s alleged endorsement of a video comparing the COVID vaccine to the Tuskegee experiments on black people “manipulates and preys” on black people’s feelings about the issue, Ms. Plaskett said.

Mr. Kennedy was indirectly promoting eugenicist and racial science ideas about black people by raising alarms about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, she suggested.

By Jeff Louderback

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