Comments | shawnsyms: "AIDS" is not a "mass murderer" -- German HIV campaign goes berzerk

shawnsyms

"AIDS" is not a "mass murderer" -- German HIV campaign goes berzerk

Sep 14, 2009 17:16

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zombietruckstop September 14 2009, 21:26:50 UTC

Does Eva know he's cheating on her? Hitler is a JERK!

pensivegargoyle September 14 2009, 21:38:49 UTC

That's what happens when you invade Poland without protection.

woofmantoronto September 15 2009, 06:42:51 UTC

This!

champdaddy September 14 2009, 21:48:44 UTC

I saw this online recently, one of a series of infamous persons used in this campaign.

beg1n September 15 2009, 05:06:45 UTC

Shock value can work without being tasteless... so sad.

ruralrob September 15 2009, 13:32:14 UTC

So two people here think this is funny? Hmmmm . . .

shawnsyms September 15 2009, 14:12:08 UTC

I hear you about how awful and offensive this is on multiple levels. Sometimes humour feels like a valid response though (thinking of David Feinberg for example) and to be fair, I did kind of push the fact that the campaign is absurd to the point of comical in the intro to the article.

For me the most disturbing thing is that an HIV awareness group approved of this. Of all people, they should see what is wrong with this campaign. It doesn't even make sense unless you believe all the kinds of misinformation that such groups are supposed to be working to dispell!

ruralrob September 15 2009, 15:45:31 UTC

I'm not sure humour works for me here, but I'll concede your point ( ... )

shawnsyms September 15 2009, 16:32:35 UTC

Ms Pisani is obviously very smart and very experienced, but I find her to be a sort of Camille Paglia of HIV who is heralded for her flipness and supposed "telling it like it is" despite not always getting it right. Thanks for the link to the Guardian piece -- the thing that annoyed me the most there was this false opposition between the needs of people with HIV and taxpayers, as if people with HIV don't pay taxes ( ... )

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