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Democrat Slams RFK Jr. For Holocaust Comparisons

“In discussing Covid public health measures, you made light of the genocide against the Jewish people by saying, and I quote ‘Even Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.’ Mr. Kennedy, did you think it was easy for Jewish people to escape systematic slaughter of Nazis, yes or no?” asked the congresswoman.
“Absolutely not,” replied Kennedy, before Wasserman-Schultz continued her indictment of the Democratic presidential candidate:

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: Okay, good. Mr. Kennedy, do you think it was just as hard to wear a mask during Covid as it was to hide under floorboards or false walls so you weren’t murdered or dragged to a concentration camp, yes or no?

KENNEDY: Excuse me?

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: That’s a question, yes or no?

KENNEDY: I didn’t hear your question.

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: Okay, I said ‘do you think it was just as hard to wear a mask during Covid as it was to hide under floorboards or false walls so you weren’t murdered or dragged to a concentration camp?

KENNEDY: Of course not, that’s ridiculous!

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: That’s the comparison that you made.

KENNEDY: I did not make that comparison.

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: Were the measures taken to contain the spread and fatalities related to Covid in any way at all comparable to the murder of 6 million Jews, yes or no?

KENNEDY: Absolutely not.

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: Okay, let’s be very clear here. There’s no legitimate comparison to the Holocaust. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about A.I., vaccine mandates, or anything else, there is no comparison. And if this were a slip of the tongue, Mr. Kennedy, or a one-off comment we would all move on. But there’s a deeply disturbing pattern. In 2015, you apologized to all those, quote, ‘whom I offended by my use of the word Holocaust to describe the autism epidemic.’ When discussing efforts to encourage others to get vaccinated for Covid-19, you said that Nazis did that in the camps. In World War II, they tested tested vaccines on Gypsies and Jews, that was a quote. Like before you apologized for invoking the Holocaust saying, quote ‘To the extent my words caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.’ These are not real statements of contrition or remorse, they are passive-aggressive non-apologies that blame the listener for reacting to the lies you’ve spread. I’m deeply saddened that this is a conversation we’re having today. I have deep respect for what Mr. Kennedy’s family did and still does to make life better for all Americans, but what you are doing now, Mr. Kennedy and the forces you aligned yourself are reckless, dangerous, and disturbing. By echoing claims like ‘Jews don’t really suffer as much as we do,’ which you said, your rhetoric creates a climate of mistrust, antagonism, and even hatred or violence against Jewish people. My own children have been the targets of brutal anti-semitism on social media, you fanned those flames and jeopardized their safety.

Kennedy’s commentary about have been in the spotlight since the New York Post reported on comments he made about Covid possibly having been designed so as not to harm Jewish and Chinese people as much as black or white people.

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White American racist attitude towards Asians and Orientals was actually made into a law...

The Chinese Exclusion Act reshaped America in 1882. And it's still echoing today | CNN.

In May 6, 1882, President Chester Arthur signed a law that reshaped America. More than a century later, Congress formally apologized for it.

The Chinese Exclusion Act blocked Chinese workers from coming legally to the country, and blocked Chinese immigrants who were already living here from becoming US citizens. The Library of Congress calls it the “first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history.”

The law and other related measures were repealed in 1943. But its legacy is still being felt decades later.

The Chinese Exclusion Act paved the way for further immigration restrictions.

“The Chinese-exclusion laws were subsequently extended to people from the Philippines, India, and Japan (indeed, an entire ‘barred Asiatic zone’ was established in 1917), lumping different national-origin groups into a single racial category, the ‘Asiatic,’” Ngai writes.

Canada published its own Chinese exclusion law in 1923.

And in the United States, additional measures were passed to crack down on Chinese immigrants.

Numerous states passed so-called Alien Land Laws between the 1880s and 1920s to bar Asian people from owning land.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first and only federal law to prevent a specific nationality of people from becoming US citizens.

It was extended for decades and remained in place until 1943, when it was repealed during World War II, as a State Department history notes, “in the interests of aiding the morale of a wartime ally.”

“You can’t fight a war against fascism and then say one of your primary partners is excluded from coming to the United States,” Gong sa

“The justification for exclusion was that the Chinese were an ‘unassimilable’ race and therefore could never become Americans. … Its rationale – that Asians pose a racial danger to American society – has endured in our politics and culture to this day,” historian Mae Ngai said in a 2021 piece for The Atlantic.

The Chinese Exclusion Act may be a relic of the past, but its legacy is still echoing today.

Earlier this year, Madeline Hsu, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told CNN she sees parallels between efforts to bar Chinese citizens and others from owning property in Texas and the Alien Land Laws that passed shortly after the Chinese Exclusion Act.

“It’s definitely sort of (a) reinvocation of kind of what people in Asian American studies would refer to as ‘Yellow Peril’ fearmongering,” she said.

And this year, which also marks the 80th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act’s repeal, advocates who pushed for the congressional apology 11 years ago are hoping another branch of government will take up the issue: the president.

“This would be a good year to make that announcement from the White House, that statement of apology,” Gong says.

The goal, he says, is not to dredge up an issue from the past, but to stress America’s values going forward.

“We need to acknowledge the harm that was done. … We need to reaffirm what is right,” he says.