New York Times: "The rate of AIDS among black women is 27 times the rate among white women."

New York Times ^ | February 4, 2006 | MARC SANTORA

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/nyregion/04aids.html?ei=5090&en=7ba2793665e37220&ex=1296709200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

The New York Times

The rate of AIDS among black women is 27 times the rate among white women.

[grundle]

Justine Sacco had a great point.

[DirtyPigpen]

The government solution is to give more white women AIDS.

[Sicon]

It's because we're all racist.

Or is it Bush's fault?

No, wait, that's not it. It's REAGAN'S fault...

Or maybe it's because of global warming?

[Pearls Before Swine]

27x is a stunning number.

So is the one in five for NYC black males aged 40 to 49.

NYC must be atypical... I hope.

[Sicon]

No, wait, I’ve got it, AIDS is racist!!!

[bigbob]

Oh man, I didn’t realize even the NYT was racist...

[Bratch]

Why Did BuzzFeed & Co. Target Justine Sacco for Online Assassination?

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Friday night, a young New York-based communications director had her life destroyed on social media while she was out of touch with the world and could not defend herself. Justine Sacco was on a flight to Africa and had no Internet access when BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski apparently got the ball rolling by tweeting out to his 100k-plus followers that Sacco was responsible for what "may be the worst tweet of all time." By the time she stepped off her flight, Sacco found herself a national pariah and fired from her job. Here's the tweet that caused it all:

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At the time of that tweet, Sacco had fewer than 200 followers (she has since deleted her account). And while in an airplane blissfully unaware that Buzzfeed and Co. had dispatched its flying monkeys against her, hashtags devoted to Sacco's destruction climbed to the top spot on Twitter, her employer InterActiveCorp released a statement condemning her (and later fired her), and there were literally hundreds of articles and blog posts on the subject -- including The New York Times, the left-wing BuzzFeed (naturally), The New York Daily News, The Hollywood Reporter, and, well, you get the idea.

Other than the very sad fact that a lot of bitter people obviously had nothing they would rather do on the last Friday night before Christmas, why did this happen?

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***UPDATE: If you think, for whatever reason, that what happened to Justine Sacco is okay; I'm assuming you won't have any problem with me watching your personal social media accounts, blowing up at Breitbart News what *I* deem offensive, and then, without asking you, contacting your employer and demanding you be fired. Your rules, not mine.

[Gay State Conservative]

“Women and minorities hit hardest”.Yah,we get it NY Slimes.What does their countdown to bankruptcy clock read today? Twelve months maybe?

[SatinDoll]

Less sex with multiple partners among the black population would cut the rate. How many of these women who contract HIV are prostitutes?

[Standing Wolf]

Not only that, but it's caused by racist Republican refusal to fund pre-school day care and free breakfast, lunch, and dinner for poor, innocent little children who will be killed by Glock AK-47 high-powered sniper weapons of mass destruction with ultra-high capacity invisible magazines the gun lobby sells in the ghetto because of white fundamentalist Christian racism.

(I sure hope I didn't leave anything out.)

[willywill]

“Justine Sacco had a great point.”

is it just me, or has just about everyone who has been fired or suspended lately been factually correct?

[GeronL]

Planned Parenthood gives a booklet away about HIV-AIDS that tells those with it that they can still sleep around and not tell their partner about their disease. That their right to sex trumps the other persons right to know about a deadly disease.

Taxpayer dollars at work

[Marcella]

“No, wait, I’ve got it, AIDS is racist!”

No, WHITE WOMEN are racist or they would have AIDS as much as black women in order to show support for black women - so both would be equal.

[GeronL]

How many stupid and offensive posts did Andrew read through to find that one?

[Revolting cat!]

That Tweet, however cruel it may be, cuts to the core of the issue. It obviously struck a raw nerve of the third rail!

[A_Former_Democrat]

Even the damn virus is racist

[snappahead]

..despite Bloomy giving out condoms by the truckload..

[Bernard Marx]

How many of these women who contract HIV are prostitutes?

Or IV drug users?

[SatinDoll]

Aren’t they usually one and the same?

[Bernard Marx]

is it just me, or has just about everyone who has been fired or suspended lately been factually correct?

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell