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I won't defend AIDS jokes (but then I won't defend leprosy, ebola, or alzheimer's jokes either).

That said, Hong Kong films have a number of AIDS jokes/insults in them. No one is shown with graphic AIDS sores. Maybe they offer some gallows humor on SARS over there as well.

Tiny Tim recorded a cut about how Santa won't be around because he has AIDS this year.

It is an illness. Anyone could get it. There has been an extensive campaign to tell Americans that it is not (just) a homosexual disease.

It would seem that AIDS is unlike other illnesses though because it has been politicized. The CDC doesn't even track infections the same as with other STDs (anonymity is big).

Homosexual are also a politically protected class of individual.

This was Michael Savage's crime, not being PC.

BTW, should administrators pull all ONION threads since they made a fake article that was in bad taste refering to Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's?

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"This was Michael Savage's crime, not being PC."

I disagree. His crime was being stupid and flouting the standards of his employer. I bet Pat Buchanan and Michael Savage share the same opinions about gays and their agenda but I don't see Buchanan getting kicked off his gigs. Why? Because he doesn't get into personal insults and invective. He discusses the issues.

"BTW, should administrators pull all ONION threads since they made a fake article that was in bad taste refering to Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's?"

No. But I would suspect that if the Onion had advertisers a lot of pressure could have been brought to bear to make sure they did not run an article of a similar nature.