(September 13, 2024 at 9:59 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: So, how exactly are Haitians giving the people of Springfield HIV? Are they fucking them all, are they just giving blood willy-nilly, or are they sharing needles? Now I'm curious, especially knowing that HIV in particular has very few routes to infection, and those scenarios cover everything except mother-child transmission. And the blood-giving one is itself extremely unlikely, since (from what I understand) all blood donations in America have been screened for HIV for decades.
... Vance picked one of the worst communicable diseases to claim Haitians are just spreading is what I'm saying.
J. D. Vance is simply tapping into an old racist trope that black people are sexually lewd and "can't control their sexual urges" and are perhaps raping white people who are too woke to admit it.
Quote:The belief that black people are sexually lewd predates the institution of slavery in America. European travelers to Africa found scantily clad natives. This semi nudity was misinterpreted as lewdness. White Europeans, locked into the racial ethnocentrism of the 17th century, saw African polygamy and tribal dances as proof of the African's uncontrolled sexual lust.
The English colonists accepted the Elizabethan image of "the lusty Moor," and used this and similar stereotypes to justify enslaving black people. In part, this was accomplished by arguing that black people were subhumans: intellectually inferior, culturally stunted, morally underdeveloped, and animal-like sexually. white people used racist and sexist ideologies to argue that they alone were civilized and rational, whereas black people, and other people of color, were barbaric and deserved to be subjugated.
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/jezebel/index.htm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
