From: ksb@oscar.bellcore.com (Ken Berczik)
Subject: Re: AIDS and those damn democrats
Reply-To: ksb@oscar.bellcore.com (Ken Berczik)
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 11:59:07 GMT

 
In article <1992Jul23.151924.18099@tc.cornell.edu>, shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul22.210125.26087@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, anonymous writes:
|> > Are you seriously telling me that you want me to spend tax dollars
|> > to teach people how to stop the spread of AIDS. Well first you get
|> > all the gays to stop XXXXXXX each other in the XXX and then you get
|> > the needle users to stop shooting up, and then you get the rest of
|> > the heterosexual community to practice abstainence. Otherwise you
|> > are safe from contracting unless you have contact with the blood
|> > or body fluids of an infected person.
|>   
|> > If it weren't for the sexual deviants that were attracted to monkeys
|> > we wouldn't have this problem in the first place!
|> 
|> I think this demonstrates my point rather well.  This kind
|> of twisted, hate-driven "thinking" is precisely what hindered
|> early efforts to slow the spread of AIDS.
|> 
|> I might also add that while the Reaganites and Bushies might
|> be bigots, I would guess that there are relatively few so
|> cowardly as to be unwilling to stand behind what they say and
|> make their identities known. 
|> -- 
|>        Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu

Regarding your (Melinda Shore's) comment on Bush and bigotry, look at the quote in my .signature. The same quote also appeared in "The Wit and Wisdom of George Bush." (Yes, the title is sarcastic.)

But, as I say in my .signature, I don't really think Bush is a bigot; what he is is so detached that he doesn't see a problem. He doesn't, didn't, see a problem with the economy; he didn't see a problem with saying such a stupid remark.

I was tempted to say "Bush isn't a bigot, he's stupid" until I remembered that bigotry is stupid.

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++ My immediate reaction to this reprehensible quote was that David Duke ++
++ has nothing on Bush. Bush's blase, aloof phrasing, however, would     ++
++ seem to indicate a detached view of the world rather than indicate    ++
++ that Bush harbors anti-Semitic views. (I don't recall any other       ++
++ quotes of this nature.) Bush was able to say this because he couldn't ++
++ see that it would be seen as a tasteless quote. He doesn't see; he    ++
++ doesn't understand; he doesn't care. Keep this quote in mind when you ++
++ vote in November.                                                     ++
++                                   -- Ken Berczik                      ++
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