On the contrary, I took your views on whiteness seriously because they were interesting and suggestive, although I thought, not quite right. But AIDS denial is like holocaust denial; it's lunacy.
The problem when someone like in power like Mbeki engages in it is that affects people; your ideas merely express your own views. Mbeki's being off-the-wall has nothing to do with his being African; I am sure I don't know why he refuses to accept what every responsible scientist and doctor things, and all the other African leaders as well.
Your response here reinforcing my sense that your are engaging in radical chic: what's the matter, white people cannot criticize black Africans if they say foolish and (in his case) dangerous things, that's racism? I think that George W. Bush's doubts about global warming are equally foolish and probably more pernicious, since W. looks to be the next Prez. It is terrible, in Mbeki's case, where the leadership of what is after all a victorious national liberation effort who is, dammit, supposed to know better, lets down millions of desperately ill poor people. Don't you thing?
In any case, you are a white boy too, so that particular epithet gets us nowhere. It's a case of the chalk calling the snow white. --jks
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> > Mo, Leo, it's very useful. Chris has now revealed himself to be in the
>class
> > of people who believe in flying saucers at Roswell, Christian science
> > healing, and the virgin birth.
>
>and you have just revealed yourself to be a prick.
>
>Now we don't have to bother with taking his
> > views seriously any more.
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>you never did so where is the problem?
>
> The problem is when Mbeki or people in power who
> > ought to know better endorse this pernicious rubbish about AIDS.
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>what happened, mbeki is too stupid to know any better? or maybe he's just a
>silly african easily swayed by conspiracy theories? isn't it terrible when
>people in power who are supposed to know better let you down?
>
>you go, white boy...
>
>chris niles
>
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