"These are kids who will never pay taxes,” Kennedy declared.
“They’ll never hold a job.
They’ll never play baseball.
They’ll never write a poem.
They’ll never go out on a date.
Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.
We have to recognize we are doing this to our children.”
Kennedy’s years of anti-vaccine activism have centered in large part on autism, framing it as a “preventable disease” and epidemic driven by environmental contaminants.
A lawyer by training, with no medical background beyond freelance taxidermy,
Kennedy has consistently peddled misinformation about autism and autistic people, presenting the condition as a vaccine-driven scourge."
"I have a book of horror poetry that will be coming soon from Kith Books that’s found poetry from Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw.
Poetry doesn’t generally pay for itself, most poets are not just poets.
That’s why I fuck it with my work as an attorney."
"It’s completely dehumanizing. He didn’t lead with “poet.” He led with they’ll never pay taxes, they’ll never have a job. It’s just “useless eaters” rhetoric."
"He is using the straight-up eugenicist playbook.
People who can’t go to the toilet by themselves are still people. People who can’t write a poem are still people. I doubt [Kennedy] can write a poem, but he’s still a person."
"What does he do? He chainsaws the heads off dead whales and leaves bear cubs in Central Park.
And I don’t think it’s performance art. I think it’s just that he’s creepy. What has he ever really done, other than have a last name?"
(After his father's death, Kennedy struggled with drug abuse, which led to his arrest in Barnstable, Massachusetts, for cannabis possession at age 16, and his expulsion from two boarding schools: Millbrook and Pomfret.
During this time, some in the Kennedy family regarded him as the "ringleader" of a pack of spoiled, rich kids who called themselves the "Hyannis Port Terrors",
engaging in vandalism, theft, and drug use.[21][22] His first cousin Caroline Kennedy later blamed Kennedy for leading other members of their family "down the path of drug addiction", calling him a "predator"
At Harvard, Kennedy continued his" experimentation" with heroin and cocaine, often with his brother David, earning a reputation that has been described as a "pied piper" and "drug dealer". )
Flush, poetry.
"What this is all really about is capitalism. “Oh, they’ll never go to the toilet by themselves. That’s a miserable existence.” Plenty of people need assistance going to the bathroom whose lives are rich and full—who will write poems, who will paint pictures, who will do things, and he doesn’t actually care whether we’re creative or not. He doesn’t actually care whether we’re writing poetry or not. It’s just the same old rhetoric over and over again that we get from eugenicists."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-kennedy-hhs-autism-diagnoses-poet/
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