Why is the AIDS virus so racist?

[Tahuti]

Afghanistan's stats are even worse: it claims an HIV rate of <0.01%, which is implausible given that it's the source of the vast majority of the world's opium and male-male pederasty is common there.

Afghanistan doesn't have any tradition of IDU (like Russia has) and most males in Afghanistan are circumcised, drastically reducing the chance of catching STD's in general. Now, 0.01% is a wee bit unlikely, though the reasons you have mentioned alone are insufficient to explain HIV rates in Afghanistan.

 

[Narz]

When the best defence that can be mustered is "it's not technically racist", I'd say the debate has already been lost.

There's no debate at all. I've already said all that's need to be said.

I counter - when one needs to focus on semantics (in this case my overly polite semantics) in order to make a point the point isn't going to be very convincing.

 

[Traitorfish]

(Where did CFC get this idea that the word "semantics" functions as a get-out-of-jail-free card? "You stabbed me! Why did you stab me?" "Well, that's really just a semantic argument.")

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm not trying to start a fight, I just can't think of another word.

 

[Narz]

No Traitorfish is trying to start a fight, clearly he's racist against Narz's & if he denies it it just proves it.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

When the best defence that can be mustered is "it's not technically racist", I'd say the debate has already been lost.

Good job he didn't say that then

 

[Hygro]

Pet peeve: "racist against"



It's not racist to be more attracted to persons who look one way over another. That one look or another can highly correlate to how we are also dividing race, (and more often, ethnicity). But why one has those preferences can come from racist origins. I'd say often times they at least partially do.

We should never judge an individual on that unless it's real obvious one way or another.

 

[ParkCungHee]

(Where did CFC get this idea that the word "semantics" functions as a get-out-of-jail-free card? "You stabbed me! Why did you stab me?" "Well, that's really just a semantic argument.")

Which is funny, because Narz's argument is the one based on semantics.

 

[Hygro]

When the best defence that can be mustered is "it's not technically racist", I'd say the debate has already been lost.

But since that's neither Narz's defense nor the "best defense", nor is it something that needs to be defended, the above post is a non sequitur.

 

[Traitorfish]

We're all very uncharitable, here at CFC, that we assume everything Traitorfish says is delivered from a soap-box!

 

[Hygro]

We're all very uncharitable, here at CFC, that we assume everything Traitorfish says is delivered from a soap-box!

Well you're telling him he's most likely racist if he has a type.

 

[Zelig]

A little bit of immunity goes a long way when it comes to slowing transmissions, but I suspect that the discrepancy is also likely due to our racist sexual habits, I'm more likely to have sex with a white woman, etc. coupled with its point of origin.

Slate just had an article on this: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...date_only_people_of_your_own_race.single.html

 

[Traitorfish]

Well you're telling him he's most likely racist if he has a type.

I didn't realise we were talking about Narz in particular?

 

[Narz]

Which is funny, because Narz's argument is the one based on semantics.

I guess you could say that, I just thinking saying sexual preferences are racist is a gross misuse of the word.

Racism is a pretty vile thing, to dilute it in such a way serves noone (though I do know it's all the rage for educated white-people to talk about their unconscious racism they discovered from an online quiz to show how enlightened they are & how much they care about minorities, from their white bread suburban household of course).

My penis just likes what it likes, if it's a bigot cause I like big butts on Eastern Europeans between 5' & 5'6", so be it. It's happy to challenge your colorblind penis to a duel.

 

[Narz]

Slate just had an article on this: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...date_only_people_of_your_own_race.single.html

Awful article, it makes no argument whatsoever about why racial preferences for sex partners = racism, instead it goes on many tangents before returning back to say that people who have sexual preferences for certain "races" over others should "reflect on them".

Dating sites preference-lists in general are crap because who you are attracted to is more than a list of attributes.

 

[Light Cleric]

Awful article, it makes no argument whatsoever about why racial preferences for sex partners = racism, instead it goes on many tangents before returning back to say that people who have sexual preferences for certain "races" over others should "reflect on them".

Dating sites preference-lists in general are crap because who you are attracted to is more than a list of attributes.

He does make some sense in the overall point of inclusion, and I do enjoy it when someone takes shots at white people who surround themselves with other white people but that's okay because they "care"(as though other people don't give a damn about minorities). I just don't see how the author can make the leap to physical attraction. There's a difference between filtering friends and associates by physical characteristics and filtering the person you'd prefer to marry and/or have bonertimes with.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I guess you could say that, I just thinking saying sexual preferences are racist is a gross misuse of the word.

That is literally what a semantic argument is.

 

[Narz]

Yes, I know, you've made your point.

 

[Pegasus_77]

Probably less education translates to less condom use.

The poverty accounts for the less education.

 

[luiz]

The poverty accounts for the less education.

I didn't state otherwise.

I've always thought that poverty and subsequent worse education lead to the observed discrepancies. If there are actual immunity differences between the "races" that's news to me, and I'm always very skeptical about this sort of claims. We're all extremely similar.