Blogger and Examiner writer Melissa Griffin joins Eve and Brock to talk politics a day after the 2009 election.
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Wow - great to hear and see this post-election video which *actually* discusses the issues. I found it rather informative. Kudos.
But unfortunately, I was shocked and quite offended to hear the remarkably ignorant and defamatory remark after Brock said, "now we want to talk about aids", and then either Eve or Melissa said "Not the diet pill or the gay disease". (It was hard to tell who said it because the camera was zoomed in to Brock).
Let me just say that AIDS, while I understand it wasn't the topic at hand, is NOT "THE GAY DISEASE". It is a global pandemic that affects men, women, and children, from all walks of life, in every country and every continent no matter WHAT your sexual orientation or race or gender or ethnicity or religion. And AIDS is not over. It continues to affect millions of people gay and straight and bisexual and transgendered and intersex and any other way people might identify their sexual orientation. To hear someone say this in 1980 might have been excusable. To hear someone, from SAN FRANCISCO no less, say this in 2009....... WOW. All I can say is GET YOURSELF EDUCATED, lady. AIDS is not "THE GAY DISEASE". Gay people, and gay men in particular have been hit hardest by the pandemic - but we did not cause the disease, and yet we have also been the leaders in the fight against it.
I know you were just making a light tongue-in-cheek remark, trying to differentiate the term "aids" from its other meanings. Nevertheless, it was EXTREMELY offensive to me, and probably to a lot of other viewers.
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Wow - great to hear and see this post-election video which *actually* discusses the issues. I found it rather informative. Kudos.
But unfortunately, I was shocked and quite offended to hear the remarkably ignorant and defamatory remark after Brock said, "now we want to talk about aids", and then either Eve or Melissa said "Not the diet pill or the gay disease". (It was hard to tell who said it because the camera was zoomed in to Brock).
Let me just say that AIDS, while I understand it wasn't the topic at hand, is NOT "THE GAY DISEASE". It is a global pandemic that affects men, women, and children, from all walks of life, in every country and every continent no matter WHAT your sexual orientation or race or gender or ethnicity or religion. And AIDS is not over. It continues to affect millions of people gay and straight and bisexual and transgendered and intersex and any other way people might identify their sexual orientation. To hear someone say this in 1980 might have been excusable. To hear someone, from SAN FRANCISCO no less, say this in 2009....... WOW.
All I can say is GET YOURSELF EDUCATED, lady. AIDS is not "THE GAY DISEASE". Gay people, and gay men in particular have been hit hardest by the pandemic - but we did not cause the disease, and yet we have also been the leaders in the fight against it.
I know you were just making a light tongue-in-cheek remark, trying to differentiate the term "aids" from its other meanings. Nevertheless, it was EXTREMELY offensive to me, and probably to a lot of other viewers.
Bart, 8 months, 3 weeks ago.
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