Is this an alternative universe thing? I mean, why is Tucker in, like, a lodge or something? What is this? It can’t be about our universe.
https://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1442607991811944448
This makes me so mad. Like, we had an entire generation of gay men stigmatized by most of the nation in what was already their most traumatized moment. People who weren’t gay and contracted HIV were often just as stigmatized. There were and are HIV-specific criminal laws!
“Failure to make moral judgments on this behavior is why we have this epidemic. To my knowledge, the President has never said that we are to abandon moral judgment on these types of matters.” - Reagan staffer Carl Anderson, in a 1987 White House memo 
That memo was featured in the last part of my 2015 story on how Nancy Reagan turned down Rock Hudson’s request for help in his AIDS treatment efforts. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
That part of the story is about how, when Reagan finally spoke about AIDS at an AmFAR event, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop wanted language about not judging or passing moral judgment. Anderson wrote that memo urging otherwise. Anderson won and Reagan changed Koop’s language.
Anyway, there are about 1,000 other examples from government alone. It’s absurdist bullshit for Tucker and whoever that is to claim that moralizing was something that “we” didn’t do around AIDS. (Hell, it’s something that people still do.)
Oh, lol. That was Naomi Wolf, so I’m now mad but laughing because it’s all so unbelievably stupid.
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