RFK Jr. Faces Backlash After Trashing 500 Million Arabs in the World
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decided to slander an entire ethnic group in a speech Monday. Kennedy told the Kent County GOP in Grand Rapids, Michigan, “There’s 500 million Arabs in the world. And yet they don’t produce science. They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature. “They were the first to make books and they, in the thirteenth century, typical Muslim princes had more books in their libraries than in all of Europe. Oh, and all of that tradition has been destroyed by the…
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FACT FOCUS: Kennedy's claim that Arabs 'don't produce science' meets a Nobel Prize reality check
U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sparked controversy with comments about Arab contributions to science and literature. Speaking at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Kennedy claimed Arabs do not produce science or win major prizes like the Nobel or...
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RFK Jr. Faces Backlash After Trashing 500 Million Arabs in the World
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decided to slander an entire ethnic group in a speech Monday. Kennedy told the Kent County GOP in Grand Rapids, Michigan, “There’s 500 million Arabs in the world. And yet they don’t produce science. They don’t win...
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