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>hawking bum dope about AIDS Odd turn of phrase.
by meowface 6y ago
>hawking bum dope about AIDS
Odd turn of phrase.
- aspenmayer 6y agoThey are referring to Operation Denver, a KGB plot to sow misinformation suggesting that AIDS was a US government conspiracy as early as 1983. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/operation-denver-kgb-aids-disinformation-campaign/ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/operation-denver-kgb-aids...
- meowface 6y agoOh, I know, I just thought it was funny to refer to disinformation as "hawking bum dope". (Though this is a merging of the NYT's word and the quote.) Not really something anyone would say in modern American English.