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Apologies if you somehow missed the larger context of my post. I'm not trying to specifically bash Magic Johnson for his efforts expanding awareness of and research into HIV/AIDS, I'm trying to make a point that money literally buys time in this world.
The comment I replied to is a line from a song simply stating "and all your money won't another minute buy" and I pointed out an example of someone buying years of time with money.
Regardless of the larger point you were trying to make, you didn’t have to run over magic Johnson and the multiple decades of worldwide HIV/AIDS advocacy, hundreds of millions of dollars, tens of thousands of hours of lectures and good works that he did with a freight train of bigoted ignorance.
So go fuck yourself with that freight train of bigotry, ignorance, entitlement and arrogance you rode in here with
Because unless you’re gonna delete your comment, I don’t wanna hear it
First of all, if I did delete my comment, how would other people have content to your outrage?
Second, Help me understand how giving an example of money buying health is bigotry, ignorance, entitlement, or arrogance.
At no point did I disparage Magic Johnson or say anything derogatory towards people with HIV/AIDS. Maybe I picked a bad example, sure. I'm highly confident that every single millionaire and billionaire has spent more on health care than the average person.
Honestly you are making some of my point for me. Yes, tremendous effort went into normalizing a deadly disease that was previously demonized as only afflicting "the gays" and "junkies" ... By spending massive amounts of money, work that could not have happened without financial backing "everyone" up to that point didn't see a reason to expend.
Purely a philosophic question, Still no offense to Mr. Johnson, but would he have spent any of that time effort and money if he didn't personally have HIV?
As I said in my private comment to you, I am happy to educate you on the history of the contributions that Magic Johnson made. I’m happy to educate you on the history of HIV and aids because of his contributions. I have absolutely no interest in engaging in your arguments.
If you’re interested in being educated, let me know.
And so this can be seen publicly: thank you for deleting your comment