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These are the type of losers that help spread this disease. My best friend got HIV by someone lying about their status and a condom breaking.

“Whiteness” is a construct designed by a particular group of people in order to exclude particular other groups and deny them their rights.

Us-vs-them predates humans.

I’m not white, but I’d be pissed as hell if there a course ‘The Problem With Hispa...’ Let me stop you there, go fuck yourself (not you, the person who named the theoretical course I just made up in my head).

Yeah, seeing his picture, this is making a lot more sense to me.

It’s almost like it was deliberately written to be provocative and confrontational. And continuing to perpetuate the ‘us’ vs ‘them’ mentality.

I don’t really have a problem with the name, but it’s like the college course equivalent of clickbait. Most people who’ll take it will probably go in like “Oh, this’ll probably be about the institutionalized white power structure and it’s pervasive racial oppression throughout the western world”, but a republican…

I have a problem with the course’s name. If there was a class called the “The Problem of Blackness,” or “The Problem of Hispanics,” or “The Problem of Jewishness” this website would be up in arms. Being born a particular way isn’t a problem. Nor should it be treated as such.

And as another commenter pointed out, it also depends significantly on your familial/community response to your diagnosis. It’d be nice to think all corners of the world would be progressive enough to not shame/shun the individual, but there are MANY factors to consider in an HIV diagnosis: of course, health and…

LOL. Nope.

Merely having the disease is not a crime. Not disclosing it is a crime in the state he lives in.

Exactly. It’s really very frightening. Have any of these people who think it’s totesNBD! heard or read interviews with people who have been ‘managing’ this disease for years? It’s not an easy life. And that’s with the Cadillac of medical care and drug cocktails. These are not healthy, happy-go-lucky individuals. And…

YUP. And it’s such a privileged point of view. HIV may not be a huge deal for someone IF they catch it early, IF they had a decent immune system to begin with, IF they can afford/access medication and treatment, IF they live in a community that will be accepting and understanding of their status, IF they can find a…

The drugs you need are still massively expensive and require careful monitoring, though. It’s not something you can just assume is a valid response.

Most other STDs don’t have the potential to kill you, as HIV does. Most other STDs do not require lifelong medication, doctor appointments, and stress. Most other STDs, quite simply, are just not on par with the seriousness of HIV. Dissenting commenters? Most people agree here that what this man did was…

Yeah, this whole “but nowadays HIV is no big deal!” slant troubles me. It’s still a lifelong disease that requires constant care—and it (or complications from it) can still kill you. Even if it’s “less likely.” Maybe let your partners have the OPTION to decide if it’s really “no biggie”??? Bc personally, I know HIV…

“especially given that he never actually infected anybody”

No, he deserves to be punished. This is reckless endangerment. He gave someone HIV without informing them that it was a possibility. You can’t do that. I know that there are great meds now and viral loads can become undetectable but he still has HIV now for the rest of his life and has to take all of these drugs…

Please forgive my stupidity, please, but if the guy had HIV and didn’t tell his partner, then proceeded to have either protected or unprotected sex how is this not reckless endangerment? Why would this conviction cause outrage among LBGTQ advocates when this: