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[pikabot]

This makes me angry.

To be precise, this sort of thinking makes me angry:

“For gay men, the most compelling argument against the criminalization of HIV is the propensity of those who hate us to use AIDS fear as a weapon against our civil liberties,” insists Sky Gilbert, a well-known gay-rights firebrand. He thinks the activist establishment should have demanded that Mr. Aziga be acquitted.

I mean, I understand that concern, but at the same time? Fuck you, that's not what the justice system is for. If you go around deliberately exposing other people to a deadly bio-hazard, I don't care if the delivery method is an aerosol spray or an envelope of white powder or your fucking penis. That is both morally reprehensible and criminal activity, and deserves to be punished to the full extent that the law allows.

Proposing to allow him to get away with that in order to further your political cause (even if it is a cause that I agree with!) disgusts me on a very fundamental level.

Comments

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

...okay is this man trying to say infecting someone with AIDS knowingly shouldn't be illegal?

[pikabot]

Basically! Or to be more accurately that gay rights activists should lobby to make it not illegal!

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Unknowingly, I understand. But if you knowingly do this to someone ... fuck you.

The sad thing is, I think this law would be wielded against gay men more than the many straight men and women who give each other HIV knowingly :\ as it is seen to be a 'gay disease' in the US. Kind of like how Canadian obscenity laws disproportionately went after homosexuals.

Though, uh, yeah, this guy can shove it. My sister had someone knowingly give her a disease, and I can't imagine how much more fucked up it would be if it was deadly. So. Yeah. Fuck that.

[pikabot]

It's not even a new law! Its just the first HIV-related conviction in Canada based on laws surrounding, you know, not deliberately giving people deadly diseases!

And oh yeah, he knew. He ignored several warning from health officials and outright lied to the women he slept with about it. Two of them are now dead and I think like five others are HIV positive.

[ew-younerd.livejournal.com]

Apparently a German pop star just did this to a bunch of men she slept with, too :|

[pimpstergust.livejournal.com]

What really bugs me is how it's being turned into a "gay issue" when the dude in question was sleeping with ladies. Do the people doing this not see how presenting this as a gay issue might possibly affect people's perception of homosexuals as disease-ridden amoral scum?

I'm just saying, it seems pretty insane for self-proclaimed spokespeople to be trying to fit this into their own agenda.

[pikabot]

Well it's sort of already a 'gay issue' because AIDS has historically been seen as a 'gay disease' and used by insane homophobes as a fear-mongering tool, etc etc

That said taking the side of this guy when he isn't even gay does seem rather insane.