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Doesn't surprise me at all that sexually transmitted diseases spread much slower among Conservatives as they tend to also much more sexually conservative. Actu

Doesn't surprise me at all that sexually transmitted diseases spread much slower among Conservatives as they tend to also much more sexually conservative. Actually here in the West the group that was affected the most in the beginning were gays, this is a fact. After that it spread to drug abusers and prostitutes. You can't even repeat historical facts anymore in liberal comment sections without getting down voted into oblivion because apparently so many are triggered by facts. Next time you should consider being PC - AIDS was caused by the patriarchy. Edit: My comment was meant to be a response to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=12197329&goto=item%3Fid%3D12197099%2312197329 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=12197329&goto=item%3Fi...

nostromo 10y ago
Nobody denies that gay men have a higher occurrence of HIV. The problem is when you turn it into a value judgement about being gay, rather than seeing it as an opportunity to exercise empathy and understand why the problem exists and how it can be improved. The same sort of controversy existed when birth control was invented. Large sections of society argued that now nothing could control women, who were free to be "sluts" without fear of pregnancy. Now we recognize that was a ridiculous argument. Of course women should be able to have sex without worrying about pregnancy! And, similarly, gay men should be able to have sex without worrying about a life-threatening illness.
- DominikR 10y ago
  There is no value judgement about gays in my comment! You are making this up in your head. I call things as they are to my best of knowledge and in this particular case I know it is a fact. So when I read that "machismo" is the underlying problem with HIV then I call it nonsense because it simply isn't true.
dang 10y ago
Please keep ideological rants off HN. This kind of reply just takes the thread into tribal rhetoric and meta talk, the two things we're most trying to avoid here. Your comment doesn't even accurately describe this thread. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197329 and marked it off-topic.
legulere 10y ago
HIV is so common in homosexual men because the risk of transmission from anal intercourse is especially high. Being discriminated they don't have as good access to preventive measurements and treatment. HIV is so common in drug users, because of needle sharing. You can prevent this is you provide clean needles to them. Something conservatives are usually blocking. So much about conservative superiority.

nostromo 10y ago

Nobody denies that gay men have a higher occurrence of HIV. The problem is when you turn it into a value judgement about being gay, rather than seeing it as an opportunity to exercise empathy and understand why the problem exists and how it can be improved. The same sort of controversy existed when birth control was invented. Large sections of society argued that now nothing could control women, who were free to be "sluts" without fear of pregnancy. Now we recognize that was a ridiculous argument. Of course women should be able to have sex without worrying about pregnancy! And, similarly, gay men should be able to have sex without worrying about a life-threatening illness.

DominikR 10y ago
There is no value judgement about gays in my comment! You are making this up in your head. I call things as they are to my best of knowledge and in this particular case I know it is a fact. So when I read that "machismo" is the underlying problem with HIV then I call it nonsense because it simply isn't true.

dang 10y ago

Please keep ideological rants off HN. This kind of reply just takes the thread into tribal rhetoric and meta talk, the two things we're most trying to avoid here. Your comment doesn't even accurately describe this thread. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197329 and marked it off-topic.

legulere 10y ago

HIV is so common in homosexual men because the risk of transmission from anal intercourse is especially high. Being discriminated they don't have as good access to preventive measurements and treatment. HIV is so common in drug users, because of needle sharing. You can prevent this is you provide clean needles to them. Something conservatives are usually blocking. So much about conservative superiority.