With gay marriage a done deal and transgender rights rapidly triumphing, the hunt is on for a new oppressed minority to champion. How about people with HIV who are annoyed by laws mandating that they inform potential sex partners of that fact? That’s discriminatory! From the New York Times:
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… We now have several Supreme Court rulings protecting our privacy in this [sexual] domain, but there is one group of people to whom not all those protections extend: those who are H.I.V.-positive. In many jurisdictions, people who know they are H.I.V.-positive are legally required to disclose this status to potential sexual partners, even when they intend to engage in relatively safe and protected sex. Why do our disclosure policies single out this group, and not, for example, people with other incurable, or possibly fatal, infectious diseases?
Because they are not sexually transmitted incurable diseases?
… For instance, people who fail to disclose that they are H.I.V.-positive do not necessarily cause any harm to intimate partners. … H.I.V. disclosure laws give too little weight to the interests and rights of those who are H.I.V.-positive, while overvaluing and overestimating the benefits of transparency for society. By repealing these laws, we move in the direction of adopting more just and effective policies for combating the H.I.V. epidemic, while protecting the most fundamental human rights.
Laurie Shrage is a professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at Florida International University.
But even among New York Times commenters, World War HIV is off to a poor start:
S.L. Briarcliff Manor, NY 4 hours ago
The reason HIV is singled out is that it progresses to a deadly disease without life-long expensive treatment with plenty of side effects. Just because people are living longer with HIV before it progresses to AIDS does not mean that it is not criminal to infect someone with a potential killer. It may not be politically correct to some people to single out this one disease which is frequently spread by dangerous and promiscuous behaviors. That does not make it right not to prosecute people for knowingly spreading a killer disease. In addition, it is a tremendous burden on the health care system to add another chronic disease, especially one which can be curtailed by more cautiousness and honesty on the part of sexual partners.
Josh Hill is a trusted commenter 4 hours ago
This column is quite frankly insane.
But prima facie ridiculousness is no barrier to ultimate success, so keep an eye on this one. It could be a contender.
HIV has never been proven to cause any disease. HIV tests are pretty much worthless and “standards” vary from country to country. I’d recommend Rebecca Culshaw’s slim volume “Science Sold Out” or watch the 2009 documentary “House of Numbers.”
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These bastard activists have been pushing hard to drop the ban on not letting gay men give blood. They made an even bigger push this year, with testimony from the CDC still not budging, but you know how that goes. All it takes is some dumb shyt activist w/in that org to turn things around. Worse, the media buried the fierce push the gay lobby made. They’ll be back and again the media will ignore it. The public has no idea what the stats are concerning the HIV infection rates of men between 18 and 41. Horrendous. The lobby has managed to make most Americans think HIV has faded from memory simply because it rarely appears in the news any more. Hollywood has also managed to influence many people, esp. women, through shows like “Modern Family” in which the two gays characters, both predictably funny and engaging, have monogamous relationship and an adopted daughter…oh, they just got married in a recent episode. Sooooo far from reality. Now, we all know this is nothing new. Hollywood productions are never “reality” but there’s no reporting out there that shows the average American that that portrait of gay males is way out of whack. If you live in a city, you know that. If you don’t, you don’t know that.
I second the recommendation that iSteve and Unz readers watch “House of Numbers.” It is available on Netflix through streaming (at least that is how I watched it sometime ago).
I wonder how long before everyone involved in the making of the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ will have to apologize for being in such a hate filled film. How things have changed in only 20 years.
But prima facie ridiculousness is no barrier to ultimate success, so keep an eye on this one.
It could be a contender.
—-
Unfortunately true.
Gay marriage sounded insane to almost everyone including most gays just 10 years ago after all.
This is close to the theme of your may 16th post “freedom for aggression”.
When we keep hearing about how Poland and Hungary are suddenly not "democratic," what exactly does that mean? I think a big part of it is that the elected parties fired a lot of the losing parties' supporters from jobs at national broadcasters.
Also, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will spend the next eight years raining down on that feckless police department like a bag of anvils.
The majority of the Chicago cops are not the problem. It is the brass, the mayor and especially the Cook county prosecutor.
Wouldn't he have been able to get his treatment paid for by Polands health service, once he was established there? If he'd have done that, he'd still be alive, and probably he wouldn't have spread his disease around either.
Well, Mol worked his magic on the young and naive, who are more likely to be liberal even (especially) in uber-conservative countries. Romania is the same.
So, when dealing with the Mols of the world, the cross-section of the Polish population that goes gaga for him and gets HIV skews overwhel...
Metternich said that Asia begins at the Landstrasse, which is a road outside of Vienna. This means that Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia are excluded from Europe. Czechia is included but only because at the time Bohemia was a German domain with Czechs merely subject people.
"One thing that is sure about this story… white women are addicked to Afro-dong."
Anon you have Homo Cuck DNA in you because of your obsession with Negro penises.
"Readers" must be ancient. At a recent church rummage sale (Blessed Sacrament on Monroe Avenue) I got some old textbooks.
Using Latin (III) begins with excerpts from Sallust's Catiline
moves on to material from Cicero
then materials from Ovid
toward the end, "Glimpses of Roman Life...
Up until about 1990, male nurses were either huge heffalumps who could manhandle psych cases or gay as a Vienna horn. (And they were not mutually exclusive: some of the brutes were what we used to call "bull-f***ots".) And the female ranks closed against them in a big way.
The male nurses I h...
Of Globenglish and Globidiots
Yeah, I agree with you both -but let me add the remark please, that the Biblical metaphor you mention works the other way round: It talks of the confusion that arises, if there are too many languages involved in building a - highly advanced so to speak, society.
It ...
You don't have to lie on your federal job application; just don't be a current toker and don't apply for a job that requires a security clearance. You can get a security clearance if you are a poofter, but not if you are a pothead. After all, which one is more dangerous? ;-)
He sucked for the Phillies after 1980.
Jesus jumping across a river of piranha with jet shoes, Alarmist.
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How was it John Dowd put it? "The mob had a mortgage on Pete Rose while a player and a manager."
That's as bad as or worse than dop...
_My grandfather's son_ is good. The reviewer at the London Economist (anonymous) said you will never understand Judge Thomas until you read the book, and it might be true.
I'm not convinced that every page is great, and I found it dragged toward the end, but the part where young Clarence an...
For me, the long deception equals all the politically correct dogmas that I've been told since youth that don't seem to match with what I observe in reality. The awakening I think is what Mr. Sailer calls "noticing." It's not that I resent the reality... no that's fair... we're all animals with ...
Yes, upper-middle class is protected from decadence
(I'm not so sure about the upper class, they can indulge
their base appetites with complete impunity. What's
more, nobody will know about it. E.g., rumors about
Bill Clinton and the "Lolita Express," Trump's wanton
promiscuity in his younge...
"Whites who commit crimes tend to be isolated loners. Crime is apparently not a communal or group activity for them."
Even Whites who are not criminal loners like the Russian and Italian Mafia try to stay as low a profile as possible so as to not attract too much attention from law enforcement.
leaving bacon all over a Christian church isn’t equivalent, so we’d need to substitute another desecration
The exquisite sensitivity of Muslims to the defilement of their relics seems unique, and extremely neurotic.
I cried so much during the end of Where the Red Ferm grows. It was freely available in junior high school--boys would recommend it by word of mouth, too, with no coaxing from the teacher.
_I am third_ was another boy friendly book I recall got rave reviews (even though I never read it person...
Yes “youths” have low IQ and even lower levels of responsibility. So does Dylan Roof. I don’t see any reason at all to cut either any slack. We must demand lengthy prison terms and hate crime penalties to deter future attacks, and get up in Black people’s faces as Obama once put it, to pu...
I would like to see working lists of movie / novel dyads where you could read the book and then watch the movie, and then read the book for the second time and then watch the movie for the second time, you could reach three or four iterations without wasting your time.
1. Black Robe works f...
"However, we know appearances can be deceptive."
What the hell does that mean? Are you saying the lighting of the camera was dark and made the perpetrators appear more ethnic than they actually are? They are not really Black?
"The Negro population in the US is around 13%, but accounts overall for more than 50% of murders and other violent felonies nationwide."
That's nationwide when you also include suburbs and rural areas. If you only include the city limits of big cities in The U.S and exclude suburbs & rural...
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[…] SAILER: World War HIV. “The hunt is on for a new oppressed minority to champion. How about people with HIV who are […]
HIV has never been proven to cause any disease. HIV tests are pretty much worthless and “standards” vary from country to country. I’d recommend Rebecca Culshaw’s slim volume “Science Sold Out” or watch the 2009 documentary “House of Numbers.”
Glad to see Steve collaboratin’ with Unz!!
http://www.unz.com/isteve/world-war-hiv/#comment-562050
Saw this post last night. This morning, I had to work hard to use the search to find it. ???? It’s probably me. I don’t do well with changes. I loved the old iSteve and how it was laid out.
These bastard activists have been pushing hard to drop the ban on not letting gay men give blood. They made an even bigger push this year, with testimony from the CDC still not budging, but you know how that goes. All it takes is some dumb shyt activist w/in that org to turn things around. Worse, the media buried the fierce push the gay lobby made. They’ll be back and again the media will ignore it. The public has no idea what the stats are concerning the HIV infection rates of men between 18 and 41. Horrendous. The lobby has managed to make most Americans think HIV has faded from memory simply because it rarely appears in the news any more. Hollywood has also managed to influence many people, esp. women, through shows like “Modern Family” in which the two gays characters, both predictably funny and engaging, have monogamous relationship and an adopted daughter…oh, they just got married in a recent episode. Sooooo far from reality. Now, we all know this is nothing new. Hollywood productions are never “reality” but there’s no reporting out there that shows the average American that that portrait of gay males is way out of whack. If you live in a city, you know that. If you don’t, you don’t know that.
I second the recommendation that iSteve and Unz readers watch “House of Numbers.” It is available on Netflix through streaming (at least that is how I watched it sometime ago).
I wonder how long before everyone involved in the making of the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ will have to apologize for being in such a hate filled film. How things have changed in only 20 years.
But prima facie ridiculousness is no barrier to ultimate success, so keep an eye on this one.
It could be a contender.
—-
Unfortunately true.
Gay marriage sounded insane to almost everyone including most gays just 10 years ago after all.
This is close to the theme of your may 16th post “freedom for aggression”.
Jesus, are they serious? *head meets desk*