Reply #29: Oh, and one more thing.

[Liberal Veteran]

I've noted that when people refer to HIV as a policitized disease, it has more often than not been code for saying that HIV got some kind of "special treatment" because of big bad monolithic homosexual agenda.

If anything, the only "special treatment" it got was it was specifically ignored and made fun of by bigots.

I'm sure you have heard some of them: Gay=Got Aids Yet? or Anally Injected Death Serum.

Hospitals and health care workers would refuse to treat AIDS patients. People were fired and denied entry into certain places.

The point I am making is that we should do better than stigmatizing people who caught a virus. The Democratic party has surplus compassion per member than the entire right wing combined. Let's use it.