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Last year Robert Kennedy Jr. texted a photograph to a friend. In the photo RFK Jr. was posing, alongside an unidentified woman, with the barbecued remains of what appears to be a dog. Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu, suggesting Kennedy had sampled dog. The photo was taken in 2010, according to the digital file’s metadata—the same year he was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain. (A veterinarian who examined the photograph says the carcass is a canine, pointing to the 13 pairs of ribs, which include the tell-tale “floating rib” found in dogs.)

The picture’s intent seems to have been comedic—Kennedy and his companion are pantomiming—but for the recipient it was disturbing evidence of Kennedy’s poor judgment and thoughtlessness, simultaneously mocking Korean culture, reveling in animal cruelty, and needlessly risking his reputation and that of his family.

When Kennedy was married to his second wife, Mary Richardson, he was known to text other damning images to friends as well—of nude women. Those friends assumed Kennedy himself had taken the pictures, but they didn’t know whether the subjects had consented to having their genitalia photographed, let alone shared with other people. When one friend lost his phone, he panicked that somebody might discover the images.

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[-] abc@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i-think-that I'll say it - fine. It's perfectly fine if he ate a dog and photographed a bbq'ed dog if people regularly eat cows and pigs which are just as smart and also photograph themselves at hog roasts and whatnot.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

The same people who whine about people eating dogs and horses, also get mad at people who dont eat pork, or people that eat terrestrial invertebrates (because when they come from the sea its fine i guess)

Theyre then going to sit there and explain canine teeth to us

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

yes, change the post title to cw: meat instead of cw: bbq dog

if you can look at a grilled chicken but you can't handle this then take some time to have a good think

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