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TopicHas Trump handled COVID-19 worse than Reagan handled HIV/AIDS?
cymbaline
07/17/20 11:37:43 PM
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Wetterdew posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzDn7tE1lU

For context this video is clips of Reagan's administration answering questions about AIDS. They never took it seriously and Reagan didn't even deign to acknowledge HIV/AIDS for literal years. They're just laughing about it and making gay jokes the whole time. You can also hear the press yukking it up. Only one journalist was asking serious questions about it, the rest were just making gay jokes. It shows how messed up American culture was and how even the president of America embraced homophobia to the point of allowing a horribly painful disease to run rampant, the president is supposed to rise above that. He had no regard for their lives. Reagan would absolutely have taken it seriously if it had spread more among straight people. But because it mainly struck a beleaguered population, one that he personally didn't like, he decided to let them die while his administration joked with the press about the dying gays.

Trump's administration is incompetent and accidentally complicit with but it's not treating victims of COVID with the utter disdain Reagan showed toward AIDS victims.
Reading about the religious right's reaction to AIDS proves that there's no hate like "Christian love."

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