Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

All of us make poor health choices in our lives. We eat unhealthy diets, fail to exercise sufficiently, consume alcohol or harmful narcotics, spend years in obesity -- all of which can and do cause severe illness or death. It's demented to gloat about deaths caused by those. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 9, 2021 Hibernated

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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is exactly right. One of the most nauseating aspects of right-wing discourse in the 1980s/90s was gloating about AIDS deaths on the ground that they deserved it for promiscuity, not wearing condoms, IV drug use, etc. (bad health choices). It's no less repugnant for COVID: — PolitiTweet.org

This is how a lot of people on the right talked about the AIDS crisis in the ‘80s. Pointing to (often very real!) b… https://t.co/LGGRdNt4Dy

Posted Sept. 9, 2021 Hibernated

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@DennisDeeUSA1 There was confusion about what caused HIV and raging debates about how much weight to assign personal liberty v. health mandates -- just like now. There were gay people on both sides of those debates. But that's the point: the idea that anyone *deserves* a fatal illness is sick. — PolitiTweet.org

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