RFK Jr. apologizes after condemnation for Anne Frank comment

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Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is apologizing for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex for two years.

Kennedy’s comments, made at a Washington rally on Sunday put on by his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, were. It’s the second time since 2015 that Kennedy has apologized for referencing the Holocaust during his work sowing doubt and distrust about vaccines.

“I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors,” Kennedy said in a tweet Tuesday morning. “My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.”Kennedy’s wife, the actress Cheryl Hines of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, distanced herself from her husband in her own tweet about 20 minutes later.

 

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And Ann Frank took a bath once a week. This inconvenience also helped save her life so she wasn't discovered by the Nazis.

As long as he has the Associated Press printing his apology verbatim as if it were related to truth, we know how AP stands.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is a disgrace to his father’s name. I was 21 when his dad was murdered. A dream died that day.

He was talking about totalitarian surveillance and he was right that the technology exists that people can’t hide from. Horrible “journalism” here.

Someone 5150 that man please

NOTHING in modern history is worse than the holocaust. People need to STOP using it to compare their grievances to.

Not accepted.

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