White trash expat hails thai prostitues as heroic

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www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/books/25burd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Will Burma become the next Thailand if they become 'democratized'?

With 40 year old sex started English teachers roaming the streets looking for young Burmese meat?

With EA expats driving their BMW's around, running over old people, and getting away with it due to their wealth?

With large factories dumping toxic rivers into country water supplies?

[juancarlos]

With openness comes the possibility of having positive and negative consequences to society. I've used this illustration before in another thread. There are some bad drivers who cause accidents and deaths. But just because you have some negative consequences to driving doesn't mean you should absolutely ban driving for all.

[haplotype]

White losers will never go away either. We can laugh at them when they catch AIDS and appear on TV to promote "sympathy for AIDS victims".

[juancarlos]

haplotype said:

White losers will never go away either. We can laugh at them when they catch AIDS and appear on TV to promote "sympathy for AIDS victims".

Hemophiliacs, babies and children die from AIDS too.

[haplotype]

juancarlos said:

Hemophiliacs, babies and children die from AIDS too.

I deal with them every day. Over the weekend, there was a guy whose HIV test came out "indeterminate" -- no final conclusion could be made, so his body parts that had flown to various locations in North America were all discarded.

But a white guy in Thailand? No excuse.

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haploid said:

But a white guy in Thailand? No excuse.

Your idea is that men who sleep with prostitutes deserve to contract a terminal, debilitating disease?

[haplotype]

chakkaphak said:

Your idea is that men who sleep with prostitutes deserve to contract a terminal, debilitating disease?

They knew what the risks are, they chose that life.

[magpie]

The worst part about the these "prostitutes" is that a lot of them are children! That is what makes me mad. These men are worst than white-trash.

[juancarlos]

haplotype said:

chakkaphak said:

Your idea is that men who sleep with prostitutes deserve to contract a terminal, debilitating disease?

They knew what the risks are, they chose that life.

And what of the child prostitutes who contract AIDS? To say that men who patronize prostitutes deserve AIDS brings you to the slippery slope of making moral judgments on people who have AIDS. That's one of the reasons why there remains a tremendous stigma against people who have AIDS or HIV; causing people fear not to test and seek treatment; causing family members to reject them and put them out on the streets; causing even more preventable infections. The most effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs are those that openly provide information/resources to people and not make moral judgments on them.

To me, how the person acquired AIDS is irrelevant.

[haplotype]

The child prostitutes were sold by their parents to brothels; their parents don't want them anyway.

Thais know what AIDS is, it has been around for a long time. "Treatment" means prolonging the lives of kids who are miserable in the first place. You can adopt a Thai AIDS kids if you want, though few white liberals will go that far.

[juancarlos]

haplotype said:

The child prostitutes were sold by their parents to brothels; their parents don't want them anyway.

Thais know what AIDS is, it has been around for a long time. "Treatment" means prolonging the lives of kids who are miserable in the first place. You can adopt a Thai AIDS kids if you want, though few white liberals will go that far.

So, if someone's life is miserable, they might as well just commit suicide. Is that what you're saying?

As far as adopting Thai children with AIDS, I'm sure it's not just white liberals who have "gone that far". In fact, white Christian conservatives from Alabama have been doing it for years.

[haplotype]

juancarlos said:

So, if someone's life is miserable, they might as well just commit suicide. Is that what you're saying?

Oh, I suppose we could argue endlessly about their "right" to a free meal.

As far as adopting Thai children with AIDS, I'm sure it's not just white liberals who have "gone that far". In fact, white Christian conservatives from Alabama have been doing it for years.

Oh really? So where are these Thai AIDS children in Alabama? There are not many Asians here, period. Given the job I work in, if there was any such program, I'd have heard about them by now.

[juancarlos]

haplotype said:

juancarlos said:

So, if someone's life is miserable, they might as well just commit suicide. Is that what you're saying?

Oh, I suppose we could argue endlessly about their "right" to a free meal.

As far as adopting Thai children with AIDS, I'm sure it's not just white liberals who have "gone that far". In fact, white Christian conservatives from Alabama have been doing it for years.

Oh really? So where are these Thai AIDS children in Alabama? There are not many Asians here, period. Given the job I work in, if there was any such program, I'd have heard about them by now.

They don't have to be brought to the U.S. to be considered "adopted". I was referring to conservative Christian organizations funding and operating orphanages for AIDS children in Thailand, India, etc., a la Mother Teresa.

[haplotype]

juancarlos said:

They don't have to be brought to the U.S. to be considered "adopted". I was referring to conservative Christian organizations funding and operating orphanages for AIDS children in Thailand, India, etc., a la Mother Teresa.

Catholics? They are a minority here. The vast majority of Alabamans do not care about foreign countries. People here care about football, their families, their neighborhood. AIDS in Thailand is not a topic of conversation around here -- how many people have even heard of Thailand anyway?

No, the typical response around here is "Tie-land!?!? That's a country!?!? ahahahahahahahahahaaaaa"

[juancarlos]

haplotype said:

juancarlos said:

They don't have to be brought to the U.S. to be considered "adopted". I was referring to conservative Christian organizations funding and operating orphanages for AIDS children in Thailand, India, etc., a la Mother Teresa.

Catholics? They are a minority here. The vast majority of Alabamans do not care about foreign countries. People here care about football, their families, their neighborhood. AIDS in Thailand is not a topic of conversation around here -- how many people have even heard of Thailand anyway?

No, the typical response around here is "Tie-land!?!? That's a country!?!? ahahahahahahahahahaaaaa"

I referenced Mother Teresa not because she's Catholic, but because she was doing charity work, and a great example at that. Sorry you missed the point.