It feels perverse that I should have to write this piece. It is perverse. I should not have to explain to anyone, least of all those who joyfully sing from his hymn sheet, that Robert Kennedy Jr. wants to exterminate autistic people.
I should not have to explain it to anyone because it should be obvious from any moderately critical examination of how he has spent the last two and a half decades of his life.
RFK Jr., son of the late Bobby Kennedy, initially built his career as an environmental lawyer, bringing cases against polluters, but around the turn of the century, he was taken in by the fraudulent claims of disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield, who essentially kickstarted the modern anti-vaccine movement by falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism as part of a money-making scheme.
Since then, RFK Jr. has dedicated his public life to campaigning against vaccines, not linking them exclusively to autism, but primarily to autism, and the reason he does it is very simple.
RFK Jr. believes it is better to die of a preventable illness than to be autistic.
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