What bigotry & stupidity looks like when morphed together.

[William769]

A state representative incorrectly claimed that HIV cannot be transmitted through heterosexual sex.

Rep. Stacey Campfield told Michaelangelo Signorile on his radio show Thursday, "My understanding is that it is virtually—not completely, but virtually—impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex...very rarely [transmitted.]"

Campfield also blamed HIV being transmitted to humans by the story of a pilot who had sex with a monkey, but that mythology has been debunked, and there is no evidence of monkey-to-human sexual transmission, as Signorile writes on the Huffington Post. The story was debunked in the esteemed 2011 book, The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/27/Tenn_Lawmaker_Only_Gay_Men_Can_Get_HIV/

I'm sure there are many other that fit this profile. I just wanted to bring attention to this one today.

[RKP5637]

1. The bigotry & stupidity & ignorance of people like this is truly frightening. What a

backward individual, in fact, it's stupendous stupidity, really deserves some kind of award.

[Johnny Noshoes]

2. Question...

How do people THIS STUPID manage to survive?

[demosincebirth]

8. "Ignorance is Bliss." You can say shit like that and only people of his ilk, which are many, will

believe him. Kind of like the "flat earth" repubs who spout stupidities.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Don't forget Misogynist in that morphing

Only a man who hates women would tell a lie like that.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is taking an increasing toll on women and girls in the United States.1,2,3 Women of color, particularly Black
women, have been especially hard hit and represent the majority of new HIV and AIDS cases among women, and the majority of women living with the disease.1 Many women with HIV/AIDS are low-income and most have important family responsibilities, potentially complicating the management of their illness. Research
suggests that women with HIV face limited access to care and experience disparities in access, relative to men.4,5,6,7 Women are also more biologically susceptible to HIV infection during sex, and experience different clinical symptoms and complications.3,8 Given these trends and issues, efforts to stem the tide of the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic will increasingly depend on how and to what extent its effect on women and girls is addressed.

http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/6092-04.pdf

From 2007 - but it still applies.

[gratuitous]

4. That will come as news in Africa

Where AIDS continues to ravage whole populations thanks to a lethal combination of pride, arrogance, ignorance, good old-fashioned racism, and fear. Anyone who had doubts about Mr. Campfield's qualifications as a fool before he opened his mouth can now put them aside.

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. Then that means that in this idiot's little mind, there are SPECIAL AIDS RECEPTORS IN THE BUTT.

That ONLY men have.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Too dumb to live.

[fascisthunter]

6. How Does such an ignorant man have the confidence to run for office

and how sad it is that people actually voted for this imbecile.

[RKP5637]

7. That's what always seriously really scares me, that people that vote for fools like this. Given the

fact that he's really F'ed up is enough ... but then when you compound that bigotry and ignorance by people voting for him, that, is really damn scary.

[fascisthunter]

11. It is... we have seen this before in history

and we know where it leads nations. We are dealing with nuts and fools who follow them like a bunch of cult worshippers.

[The Genealogist]

9. Stupid bigot n/t

[etherealtruth]

10. I would be tempted to laugh at his abject stupidity ...

... except that it is tremendously dangerous.