When you go to Africa you can get AIDS... Even if you're white and joking?

[Passion4Muzik]

I heard about this a few days ago. The woman's an idiot. What I do want to know though is why there's not a similar furore over her losing her job as there has been for the Duck Dynasty Hill Billy being suspended by A&E? Surely she's just exercising her right to Free - if deluded - Speech.

There's no furor because she's not "entertaining" people. People make excuses for celebrities all the time and hold non-famous people to a different standard.

 

[ravenstar]

You could be right there Passion.

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Congratulations for your nomination in the
"most asinine comment of the year awards"

Did you read the report BBN posted or did you just jump to a conclusion?

 

[pigface]

Thabo Mbeki: HIV doesn't cause AIDS
Jacob Zuma: I had sex with an HIV positive woman, but I showered afterwards so I'm not at risk.

These statements (not quoted verbatim, but as close as dammit to not matter) were made openly and publically by two presidents of South Africa, a country with one of - if not the highest HIV infection rates in the world.

And don't forget Doctor Beetroot, our patient-robbing former and now dead-from-alcoholism minister of health.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...Doctor Beetroot, our patient-robbing former and now dead-from-alcoholism minister of health.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/07/manto-tshabalala-msimang-obituary

 

[-Kane-]

You would be blasted and called ignorant for labeling it a gay disease now because it's obvious that it impacts more than gay people.

Thank You! Yet none of them can see how
calling it a "Black disease" is offensive and reckless!

 

[RaKroma]

Thank You! Yet none of them can see how
calling it a "Black disease" is offensive and reckless!

If you want to get more offended, you should read this. Straight black people in South Africa probably have the same attitude like this woman joked about.

Gay men everywhere have higher rates of HIV than in the general population, Fenton said. It is estimated that the HIV rate in MSM is eight times that of the general population in low-income countries and 23 times the general-population rate in high-income countries. The most reliable prevalence figures suggest that, regionally, Latin America and the Caribbean have especially high rates, but in no country of the world is HIV prevalence lower in MSM than in the population as a whole. Even in South Africa, the country with more people living with HIV than any other, HIV is twice as common in MSM as it is in other people.
In the developed world, the US has, by some way, the highest rate of HIV new diagnoses in MSM, though the UK has possibly the highest current rate in Europe. However, in terms of the rate of increase of new diagnoses, it is central-European countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, historically with very low prevalence, that are seeing the fastest-growing European epidemics in MSM. http://www.aidsmap.com/Urgent-need-...ays-English-public-health-chief/page/2805378/