RFK, Jr. Calls Wilders a "Racist"

"Not surprising" is my reaction to the news that RFK, Jr. has labeled Geert Wilders a "racist". I received the following in my mail box from Wilders' Party for Freedom:

Robert F Kennedy Jr., the son of American presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, who was murdered in 1968, is currently in the Netherlands. He gave an interview to the left-wing television channel NCRV in which he said that Geert Wilders is a racist.

Interviewer: You call him [Wilders] a racist?

Kennedy: Yeah of course.

Interviewer: But why?

Kennedy: Because he is a fearmonger. And it struck me, it has occurred to me many times that every nation, like every individual, has a darker side and a lighter side. The easiest thing for a politician like Mr. Wilders to do is to appeal to our self interest, to our greed, to our xenophobia, to our bigotry, to the smallness inside all of us, to our hatred, and to our selfishness. And that it is much more difficult to do what my father did, which was to convince people to step outside of their narrow self-interest and make sacrifices on behalf of our entire community and see ourselves as part of the larger community.

In a reaction to the interview Mr Wilders said; “This is clearly utter nonsense and malicious. To me, racism is just as despicable as to anyone else with common sense. Kennedy Jr. is either badly informed or he does not know what he is saying. That is a pity.”

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