• Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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    11 months ago

    Oh you sweet summer child. He actively laughed at the AIDS epidemic sweeping across the community. Not a joke. He made fun of us. The second a straight person was diagnosed with HIV he launched into action as now it was a problem.

    If you google “Regan homophobic” you will find more information than I could possibly mention.

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      11 months ago

      Thanks. I was too young back then to pick up on that and history didn’t really carry this forward as much as it should have. Thanks for enlightening me.

      I didn’t mean it at all offensive, I really didn’t know.

      • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Don’t feel bad for it, I didn’t know ether and now we both have learned something.

        Personally it was because I wasn’t even alive back then and I’m not American, so my schooling really didn’t give a dame about what the USA was up to, we learned that they had stats and that was about it. We didn’t even learn what the difference between their stats and our counties was, the answer is a lot apparently.