Did Liberal PC Crap Make AIDS WORSE? (1 Viewer)

[aquapub]

For a long time, AIDS was almost exclusively a gay problem. Anal sex makes it far more likely to contract AIDS. Could it have been dealt with earlier if not for liberal political correctness?


Ms. Coulter:

"While gays were being decimated by the AIDS virus, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was more interested in not "stigmatizing" them than in saving their lives. See, where I come from, being dead also carries a certain type of stigma. Instead of distributing condoms in gay bars and at productions of the play "Rent," where they might have done some good, Koop insisted on distributing condoms in kindergarten classes, in order to emphasize the point that AIDS does not discriminate, which it does.

In 1987, New York Times reporter Maureen Dowd — before she was elevated to the cartoon pages — wrote a heroic portrait of the man. Dr. Koop, she said "fiercely wants to strip AIDS of its stigma," and for that reason, he talks "about making an animated educational video that would feature two condoms 'with little eyes on them' chatting, and about the need for 'gentle, nonmystifying' sex education for students, starting in kindergarten." I would pay quite a bit of money to hear someone describe anal sex — oh hell, make it any kind of sodomy — to a 5-year-old in a gentle, nonmystifying way."

 

[jfuh]

The fact that you're citing Coulter as the ONLY source for your entire argument says in itself just how rediculously pathetic the entire premise is.
If you're going to debate science, then show us the original research that would prove the point you're trying to get across.

This thread should be flushed into partisan bias within the basement.

BTW, nice twist of words so as ppl would miss the actual question.

 

[Kandahar]

No. However, "conservative PC crap" - such as impeding sex education - certainly has made AIDS worse. As though people are less likely to have sex if they don't know how to protect themselves. :roll:

 

[TheNextEra]

This just shows how ignorant some conservatives like Ann are. First of all it was not only a gay problem. The "conservative pc" crap of it being gay only is what kept so many straight people from coming forward and letting it known they had it when they caught it from blood tranfussions, using needles, and then having STRAIGHT sex.

Second of all, the fact many people caught it from blood tranfusions and using needles proves this was not a gay only problem, but it was elevated by ignorance.

How about putting a third option in the poll "Ann Coulter is full of crap". I'll vote for that one.

 

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