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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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”.
Needs to be a double fence, separated by about 100 feet full of sensors, with the border patrol patrolling between them, so that even if somebody breaches or gets over the first, they are sitting ducks while trying to breach the second.
When somebody attacks you or spits on you or insults you terribly, you can either attack him or leave him. You can do the same if someone makes a pass at you that triggers a strong rejection. But, if the “invasion” or crossing of the boundaries is ambiguous enough, then you enter a sort of mi...
Our whole world as we know it is held together entirely by ideas and concepts that are 99%+ discredited. If they admit one black racial hate crime then that means blacks can be racist, racial animus is real and you can't blame it all on White people, races are different and incompatible... the wh...
Technical term is AAVE, African-American Vernacular English. It actually has a few features Standard English doesn't--phases for describing different parts of an action in the present, for example.
Section 8 and the recent spate of "fair housing" edicts have made avoiding "crime" and finding good public schools more challenging than just moving it to the right the zip code.
That’s about $2.5 million per mile. A very effective fence....It’s basically built with rebar and razor wire,”
This will never fly in America. Not enough opportunities for graft. We need around 700 more miles of fence, so that's less than $2 billion. The F-35 program will cost $1.5 TR...
Los Angeles has lots and lots of flat neighborhoods, but gentrifiers have typically shunned them for a lack of borders. This seems like a coordination problem that social media could overcome.
Straights inta Compton.
Well, it's usually gays first until the coast is clear.
“it’s just as Belloc said, Europe is the faith and the faith is Europe . Europe will return to the faith or Europe will perish.” – I agree with Belloc. But I do not think that Europe will return to the faith.
That is in God's hands. We don't know. Revival can spring up afresh at any time...
Isn't "gentrification" a microaggression?
No, seriously. Based as it is on the word "gentry," meaning "people of education and good breeding," doesn't it perfectly fit the definition of something "that has no malicious intent, but that can be interpreted as 'hostile or destructive'?"
More broa...
The “barrier” fence between Israel and Egypt was built from 2011 to 2013 after thousands of Africans surged in...
A wall to keep out Africans? Africans? How racist is that? Quick, somebody call the New York Times so that they can do a front-page report on the racist Israeli fence!
Union Ironworkers make between $65 to $125 an hour. Much of our wall must be pre-cast in the factory or the cost will be staggering.
Frankly, these could be manufactured easily with welding robots.
"cranberries, blueberries, moose" - all these were also native to Europe.
"The turkeys the Pilgrims ate were the wild turkeys of New England, not the domestic fowl of Mexico." - No, they later cross bread the wild turkeys with Mexican ones they brought form England.
"Maple syrup" - it was Ca...
“This perception is fascinating, as it stands in stark contrast to data on almost any outcome that has been assessed,” the researchers, Samuel Sommers and Michael Norton, wrote on the Post Everything blog in July. “From life expectancy to school discipline to mortgage rejection to police us...
Those White SOBs.
They move into a neighborhood and drive up property values.
OK I get it about cleaning the trash out of the yard when they move in, but they even do BS like planting flowers.
What is it with those people? ;)
It can only be a brutal and “effective” (arguably ineffective, and a symptom of a profoundly dysfunctional culture) category in a specific cultural context. So I disagree that there is cognitive dissonance in this instance, because Western concepts of honor and shame are very different from o...
On a positive note, the reactions to the piece in the comments section at WaPo is overwhelmingly negative, to both the writer and his opinions.
The word "hack", as in the writer is a hack or the piece is a hack job, is coming up alot.
Oh, I get it. Racism is determined by direction. If you're running AWAY from high-crime areas, it's Racism. If you're running TOWARD places with low (or falling) crime, it's Gentrification, which is permissible.
Maybe instead of "white flight," we should call it "gentrifying the countryside."
I watched that video, and I have watched other videos of blacks going feral, and for the life of me I usually cannot understand more than 3 or 4 stray words in the dialogue. Young, feral, urban black youth really are speaking a new, distinct language.
Well... people of different intelligence ...
There is (surprisingly) little spillover (at least in murders) from the black community to the white. 1,000 black people can kill each other on the South Side and it won't affect the people living in Lincoln Park.
"The BBC report ends with:
“The incident has provoked a strong reaction on Twitter, especially among the alt-right – the fringe group that celebrated US President-elect Trump’s election win with Nazi salutes.”
So the BBC believes if you are against special needs White people being kid...
NY and LA (and DC for politics) suck up all the celebrity oxygen and it's only gotten worse (back in the early days of TV there were shows that originated in Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.) just as it seemed (until Trump) that in recent years all Presidents, all S. Ct Justices, etc. had to come onl...
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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*