Posted on 06/14/2016 7:37:23 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
Democratic [propaganda is all over the media right now, advocating for the total lifting of the ban on blood donations from "men who have sex with men."
It is being treated as a "human rights" and "equality" issue by Democratic politicians, activists and sympathizers.
A gay Democratic congressman, Jared Polis of Colorado, is calling for the ban to be lifted.
And this: "On Tuesday, six members of the U.S. Congress (led by Representative Mike Quigley of Illinois, who is the vice chairman of the House LGBT Equality Caucus), sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf requesting the agency completely lift the ban that prevents MSM from donating blood." (Newsweek)
The White House did, however, just say that the ban isn't going to be lifted. (The Daily Beast)
The Democratically-held media has been out in force with misinformation, distortions, omissions and outright lies to advocate for the lifting of the ban since the Orlando massacre. Their articles are full of holes, but of course the media are the "fact checkers," and if they don't check their own facts, who is going to call them on it?
Besides Newsweek, The Huffington Post, the Atlantic, and the Daily Beast are among those who have written flimsy propaganda pieces on the issue.
To begin with, they all characterize the beginning of the ban in 1983 as motivated by mere "fears" by the medical community of AIDS being passed through blood donations and outright "1980s panic" over AIDS.
Both claims of course whitewash the truth of what actually happened (but too many people today are either too young to know, or simply don't care what actually happened). The ban came about because people were actually contracting AIDS through blood transfusions, and they later died.
The articles also fudge on medical facts, twist priorities (like weigh having "a few more" HIV infections through blood donations against the "good" of allowing more people the privilege of donating blood), misreport on the opinions of experts and laws in other countries, and misrepresent the donor screening process to make it sound discriminatory and based on "homophobia," etc.
Some of the articles:
http://www.newsweek.com/orlando-massacre-fda-blood-donation-ban-gay-men-470226
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/14/congress-clueless-on-gay-blood-ban.html
Why are they so set on donating blood?
From the Daily Beast article:
““We… recognize that legislation takes a long time,” California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee said. “This is an emergency. An executive order should be issued, an administrative change should take place right away.”
“The White House pushed back Tuesday on calls for the administration to do just that, telling reporters at the daily press briefing that they have no plans to make any changes.
It was, in essence, a slap in the face to a community already deep in mourning.”
remind me to never get hurt
is anybody concerned about the exposure of the first responders?
OK, remind me, who is the anti-science party?!
I grew up in a small town where a classmate lost their mothrr due to an HIV tainted blood infusion in the mid 80s.
This is a bad idea to allow a high risk group to donate.
“Why are they so set on donating blood?”
to kill us..
Evil flipping freaks.... There is nothing good at can come of such idiocy.
“Live with the lie” - I believe it was Rush talking about this the other day. The democrat party is lead by the father of lies. Of this I have no doubt.
Arrogance and selfishness on parade
Just because they’re mourning doesn’t mean others should be put in danger.
One of the greatest propaganda successes ever, making everyone think AIDS was equal opportunity.
Odds of guy getting it from a gal: 1 in 4000.
Quite sure the odds of a man getting it from a man are SHARPLY higher.
Same thing is happening here. There are good medical/scientific reasons to exclude homosexuals from donating blood, but the militant homosexuals are agitating to have the ban removed.
Do we get to give out Arthur Ashe awards for those later affected?
A compassionate human being would be more concerned with passing the virus onto someone else
All legislators and thier families should be forced to only use blood from gay men. Lead from the front you bastards
They are going to try to do a Charleston only with gun control on this, aren’t they?!
Everyone has AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
Everyone has AIDS
And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend, my only true pal
My only bright star
(He died of AIDS)
Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS
My Father
(AIDS)
My sister
(AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend
(AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights and the white and the spades
Everyone has AIDS
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue
(AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you
(AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do
(AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
We gotta break down these barricades, everyone has
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
Because they want us all to sick.
< Why are they so set on donating blood?
Population control when the recipients receive blood tainted with HIV and die.../s
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