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		<title>Conspiracy and Epidemiology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>G. Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s old news, I know, but for some reason, I began thinking about Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s claim that AIDS was created by the United States government as a means of genocide. It struck me as a particularly racist thing to say &#8212; not &#8220;reverse racist&#8221; but good old fashioned black-hating/stereotyping racism.
Consider: AIDS, for the most part, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s old news, I know, but for some reason, I began thinking about Jeremiah Wright&#8217;s claim that AIDS was created by the United States government as a means of genocide. It struck me as a particularly racist thing to say &#8212; not &#8220;reverse racist&#8221; but good old fashioned black-hating/stereotyping racism.</p>
<p>Consider: AIDS, for the most part, is spread by voluntary actions. It is easily preventable, and it&#8217;s possible to live a life 99.999% free of any risk of infection. This makes AIDS an awfully ineffective way to wipe out a race. It depends on free will and choice, and that&#8217;s often fairly unpredictable in large groups of people.</p>
<p>If, however, you could predict someone&#8217;s actions, then you might have a decent chance at creating the genocidal epidemic you&#8217;re looking for. If you know that John Doe comes home every day and mixes a martini, you can poison the olives and be fairly certain about Doe&#8217;s fate.</p>
<p>So such a conspiracy depends on accurately predicting the actions of black Americans as a group.</p>
<p>And what is one stereotype of <em>all</em> targets of xenophobia? That they breed like rabbits. Indeed, one deragotory term for black Americans is involves just that.</p>
<p>That is how Wright&#8217;s remark is an insult to all black Americans. It assumes that they will, by their very nature, be promiscuous without any form of protection and use drugs.</p>
<p>Sounds like something a KKK Grand Whatever would say&#8230;</p>
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