The whole point of a story circulating on the web, that Gays are not the cause of HIV, but rather Africa is not just the propaganda purposes to keep saying AIDS effects us all, when demonstrably it has not after 25 years; the purpose to this story is also to heap more blame on the Dark Continent, a popular and convenient receptacle: a heathen hunter/gatherer and a green monkey! And we are to believe that from this strange consummation in some other epoch, believable only and uniquely because it is AFRICA, gay men in major urban areas began a preciptous dropping off like flies in 1981.
These scientists admit to a great many holes in their theory, a great many unknowns, yet they are comfortable putting this nonsense forward probably because it plays on the West's established stereotypes about Africa. And we all know Black men are sexual predators. Unfortunately in present day, poorly educated US, Whites as much as Blacks are prone to give in to these racist assumptions. Remember the AFRICANIZED bees, courtesy not of Ghana or Angola but rather Central America?!
Another hole: why didn't the colonial masters of these African colonies get impacted first and disproportionately? The Belgians. The French. The British. They were right there at ground zero, probably bareback raping African women and African men. Why then the US, which had no colonies in Africa, and why gay men? The scientists are stupefied. No matter: blame Africa.
We have left the corridors of science long ago and have been asked to participate in Magical Thinking, not the exemplary kind of a Garcia Marquez but a remedial kind like Uncle Remus.
HIV, whatever it might be, it does not cause AIDS. That it may or may not exist in human beings along with countless other microbes the ORIGINS of which we do not yet know demonstrates how little we know at all. That HIV - and every other germ - can affect without infect is widely demonstrable: that is science 101. That AIDS happens with or without HIV is also widely demonstrable.
Ergo ... The "cause" of HIV is probably an unimportant. The cause of death, critical. It is nice for some that a coroner can list AIDS on a death certificate now and loved ones have no idea what KILLED their son, daughter, mother, father. Nice, too, that we can train our eyes off the cause of misery in the swath of the globe where these deaths occur: the colonies and its children, the poor, the outcast. Globalization that has judiciously taken lands and water rights and plunged the poor into destitution is not the Cause of Death. It is AIDS, AIDS, AIDS.
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