One is a suggestion, a line of inquiry. The other is a definitive statement. The headline does the latter, but the body repeatedly does the former twice right in the opening:

claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Kennedy floated the idea

The thing about "antisemitism" is that its loudest opponents are always the most deliberate liars. They have to be, because their schtick requires that any opposition to any bad behavior by any Jew, or to any special treatment of any Jew, is to be treated like genocide.

The key word here is "deliberate." In any other hit piece, the writer might just be a retard. But when it comes to antisemitism, that need to exaggerate harm to comical levels means that there's no room for the benefit of the doubt. The whole thing is already an act, so you can't treat any part of the smear as incidental.

One is a suggestion, a line of inquiry. The other is a definitive statement. The headline does the latter, but the body repeatedly does the former twice right in the opening:

claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Kennedy floated the idea

The thing about "antisemitism" is that its loudest opponents are always the most deliberate liars. They have to be, because their schtick requires that any opposition to any bad behavior by any Jew, or any special treatment of any Jew, is to be treated like genocide.

The key word here is "deliberate." In any other hit piece, the writer might just be a retard. But when it comes to antisemitism, that need to exaggerate harm to comical levels means that there's no room for the benefit of the doubt. The whole thing is already an act, so you can't treat any part of the smear as incidental.