Everyone In Cleveland Has AIDS
March 27th, 2010 at 9:18 pm by Brian
I went to Cleveland and all I got was this lousy “I’m HIV Positive” t-shirt:
On Friday, several hundred other people in Greater Cleveland — where 4,000 people live with AIDS – will do the same thing, coming out of the closet about HIV.
It’s a “stunt” by the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, a bit of street-theater activism aimed at defusing HIV stigmas.
On Friday, we won’t block intersections or yell. We’ll just wear the shirt as we go about our routines — doing our jobs, grocery shopping, hitting a sports bar for March Madness.
That’s where Hitler went wrong. When he tattooed Jews and put triangles on gays he should have just said that he was “raising awareness” to “defuse stigmas”.
During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, a Swedish cartoonist had a caricature of the former Danish prime minister asking what the country would do if the Germans made “all the Jews wear yellow stars” as they had done in other occupied countries.
In the cartoon, the king of Denmark, who had made no secret of his disdain for Hitler, replies: “We’ll all have to wear yellow stars.”
“That’s what we’re talking about — taking the power out of stigma by giving everyone a place at the table,” Pike said.
What a great idea. Better yet, why don’t you give everyone AIDS. That’ll take the stigma away.
“If every woman in the country who has had an abortion — that’s about one of every three — owned up to it, it would drastically alter the abortion debate.”
And also more easily identify the loose women.
The Taskforce will not, for example, do its annual AIDS Walk this year, but it is looking into buying billboard space that will put HIV “in everybody’s face,” Pike said.
For someone so HIV positive, he seems so negative. So let it be known, if you want a bunch of AIDS in your face visit sunny Cleveland this year.
March 27th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
EVERYONE HAS AIDS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es
March 27th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I think I’m going to go watch that.
March 27th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Greetings:
Defining deviancy downward continues.
On a lighter note, I was living in Manhattan when the AIDS epidemic began its run up. The two demographics affected at that point were male homosexuals and Haitians. A joke that made the rounds was that the worst thing about AIDS was trying to convince your parents that your Haitian.
On a darker note, I seem to remember rather extensive efforts, on the part of the infected and their fellow travelers, to undermine our then existing public health procedures based on their claims of discrimination and feared victimization. In a typical leftist/liberal tradition, instead of expressing some minimal amount of gratitude for all our society has done to protect them from themselves, what we get is continuing demands for more, more, more. Tell it to the hemaphilliacs, says I.
March 30th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
I think the abortion “debate” has already been altered without the tee shirts. After all, how many of our elections have had the majority of women voters siding with a pro Roe v. Wade politician, regardless of what the rest of the issues were? This one is a lost cause. Focus on guns, gay marriage and healthcare welfare. THOSE debates are still hot topics.