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Ronald Reagan AIDS speech, 1987
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 (April 3, 2019 at 10:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Yeah, I'm surprised he's managed to dodge the Cosby effect so far tbh. An apology will get you pretty far for hate. People love a good redemption story. And Murphy apologized and admitted he was a fucking idiot. Back in 1996, too. An apology for rape... that's a redemption story only Christians will be able to relate to.
"Tradition" is just a word people use to make themselves feel better about being an asshole.
 (April 3, 2019 at 5:17 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I guess you weren't alive in the 80s. There was a lot of fear and very little understanding at that time about AIDS and homosexuality. Holy shit. I've seen this so many times, but not in the last 20 years. That did not age well at all.
If The Flintstones have taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement.
-Homer Simpson 
What do you know: the President who waited years to help people with AIDS and cut social services for the poor was actually a racist.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d420...b57fc6b2b2
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"
I can understand that little was known about the disease at the time, but yes his speech was rather ignorant regardless.
 (April 9, 2019 at 4:09 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(April 3, 2019 at 5:17 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I guess you weren't alive in the 80s. There was a lot of fear and very little understanding at that time about AIDS and homosexuality. The punchline "Convincing your mother that you're Hatian" probably won't make sense post GenX..... |
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