Harper's magazine has outraged fellow liberals by publishing an article claiming that testing AIDS drugs in Africa is evil because drug companies are evil and, in fact, invented the false idea of AIDS so they could poison people and get rich.
As this critique in the Columbia Journalism Review's online daily suggests, it's the paranoid anti-capitalist/anti-global-economy thesis of Hollywood's "The Constant Gardener" meets AIDS denialism. What's scary is that if it weren't gay lives that could be imperiled by this nonsense, how many more anti-corporate "progressives" (gay or otherwise) would find such scape-goating conspiracy theories right up their alley?
3 Comments for “Harper’s Over the Edge.”
posted by Lori Heine on
This is what liberalism has come to: one faction of loons outraging another. It’s the “Madonna-in-a-pointy-iron-bra” school of journalism. “Lookit me…I’m outrageous!”
It’s nothing but shock for shock’s sake. But heck, here in America it sells.
posted by Northeast Libertarian on
It’s also a game of “who is more outrageous” — in other words, who will we shout down due to their incredible horrible politically incorrect statements?!? 😉
posted by North Dallas Thirty on
One of these days, the gay lobby will learn the danger of allying itself with every moonbat cause under the sun to get more people to turn out to rallies.
But until then, watching the end results beats “American Idol”.