Neil Young used a homophobic slur and blamed gays for AIDS

LA Times ^ | Feb 1 | LA Times

[RandFan]

His own track record isn’t spotless. In 1985, as AIDS was overwhelming American gay communities, Young used a homophobic slur in an interview and said of gays and the virus, “You go to a supermarket and you see a f— behind the f— cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

[dennisw]

I read his bio. Neil was a super pot head for ages.

[Equine1952]

Maybe there’s latent homosexual tendencies in Neil maybe he’s a rump ranger hiding in his closet.

[jonrick46]

It is true that the gays did not social distance enough to control the spread.

[alexander_busek]

Young used a homophobic slur in an interview and said of gays and the virus, “You go to a supermarket and you see a f— behind the f— cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

That's it! My patience is at an end!

Either Young leaves Free Republic, or I do!

Regards,

[Jeff Chandler]

Is “potatoes” a euphemism?

[campaignPete R-CT]

Neil Young used an Asian slur and blamed Chinks for COVID

[campaignPete R-CT]

“You go to a restaurant and you see a Chinaman behind the cash register, you don’t want him to handle your lo mein.”

“You go to a bar room and you see an Irishman behind the cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

[misanthrope]

“You go to a supermarket and you see a f— behind the f— cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

Yeah, well he ain’t wrong.........

[setter]

Well Neil has a point. I don’t want them handling my foods either.

[GaryCrow]

My best friend's mother was a researcher with the CDC (since retired). Her area of expertise was the HIV virus and she was on the front lines of AIDS research when it first hit. She told me in no uncertain terms that HIV could have been eradicated if it hadn't been for the uncontrollable sexual appetites of the homosexual community. She said the number of random sexual partners the average gay man has is staggering and they weren't going to slow down just because of some virus. HIV was politicized as a danger to everyone in order to alarm the general public into thinking everyone was at risk, but in reality if you're not gay and not a intravenous drug user you're extremely unlikely to catch it.

If not for homosexual males in the U.S., AIDS would have never turned into a pandemic, it would have quickly become extinct.

[JonPreston]

Potatoes = 🌰 Chestnuts.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"...and blamed gays for AIDS"

I blame Trekkies. It started at those conventions.

[Trillian]

Aids is still an overwhelmingly homosexual disease. They should have kept it as grid.

[MDLION]

“politicized as a danger to everyone in order to alarm the general public into thinking everyone was at risk, but in reality”

Sounds familiar. Hey, wasn’t that Fauci guy around back then too? Answer both times, human beings used as lab rats.

[YogicCowboy]

The homoerotic lifestyle both creates and promotes AIDS.

Sperm is immuno-suppressive. It belongs in the vagina, not in the rectum. In the former instance, it prevents the woman’s body from destroying the exogenous substance, allowing it to survive long enough for impregnation. In the latter instance, it easily passes across the thin membrane, especially through tears of the delicate membrane, and over time impairs the recipient’s immune system.

That is why Anthony Fauci’s protection of the promiscuous meeting places for the left-wing homoerotic voting bloc, and his assertion that heterosexual monogamous couples being equally at risk for AIDS from HIV infection was a lie.

Whether HIV is truly a causal factor or not for AIDS, it is not the only one. Rectal pseudo-sex is also a factor.

[Lockbox]

Either Young leaves Free Republic, or I do!

I think your can stay 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[sauropod]

Interesting this comes out in a hometown newspaper.

Hmmmm....

[Reeses]

HIV was politicized as a danger to everyone in order to alarm the general public into thinking everyone was at risk, but in reality if you're not gay and not a intravenous drug user you're extremely unlikely to catch it.

Everything political is a lie. It's amazing how politicians get away with it. The end-justifies-the-means murderous thought process is not just to buy time during war and disaster. It's a permanent evil.

[Travis McGee]

Not just pot, not by a long shot.

His brain was permanently fried decades ago.