The headline there, with its “Make Trump” framing, removes independent thought and judgment — and, hence, responsibility — from the person who is now president.https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/953053507204075521 …
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I'm getting more angry about this over time. The framing fails to recognize the number of people (including many other New Yorkers) who realized it *was* panic — and did things to work to end stigmas relating to HIV and AIDS.
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Did horrible media coverage influence his views? Of course it did. Did he change his views over time when presented with countervailing information (like happened with millions of others)? It appears not.
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AIDS panic did not "make" Trump do anything. Just like coverage of the Central Park Five did not "make" Trump place a full-page ad calling for the death penalty, to give but one example.
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Perhaps he should spend more time worrying about what he himself called his "own personal Vietnam."
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It's obscene to suggest that a pandemic "made" Trump hate a nation of free blacks rather than point out that Trump's racism allowed him to stigmatize an entire nation with a disease. The need to "explain" Trump's racism is abhorrent--as if it can be rationalized.
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causality completely reversed, no? Hysteria was well received *because* people were predisposed to believe "4H's" theories
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