It’s official: sexism, racism, poverty and homophobia spread AIDS. Not just sex.

Aug 1, 2016 by Jill

by Matthew Hanley, MercatorNet:

What if I told you that smoking two packs a day doesn’t increase your risk of lung cancer? That a highly sedentary lifestyle doesn’t lead to various adverse outcomes? Surely you’d deride me. Conclude I’m off my rocker. Anti-science. A reactionary.

Would it be better if I qualified it to say that these behaviors are not the only causes for these conditions? Maybe, I guess, a little. But when the point is to minimize their importance as main risk factors, the question of motive naturally arises.

And so, what if I told you sex doesn’t really account for HIV transmission? Because you can do that if you are addressing a United Nations panel at an international AIDS conference. As to why the rules should be different when it comes to sex, well, that important question goes to the deepest, if often unknown, roots of our truly revolutionary culture. The short answer is because that is now how the drivers of modern society want it.

The opening remarks at the latest international AIDS Conference in South Africa last month featured some typical drivel:

It [HIV] has no biological preference for black bodies, for women’s bodies, for gay bodies, for youths or the poor. It doesn’t single out the vulnerable, the oppressed or the abused. We single out the vulnerable, the oppressed and the abused.

And:

HIV is not just transmitted by sex… It’s transmitted by sexism, racism, poverty and homophobia. And if we’re going to end AIDS, we have to cure the disease within our own hearts and within our own minds first.

When I was first alerted to these remarks, I thought they had been made by one of the authorities. They turn out to have come from South African actress Charlize Theron. But to exaggerate only slightly, they could have come from most anyone participating in a “professional” capacity.

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