[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I think the author makes some valid points. You can sympathize with tragedy even when largely self-inflicted. But it is in no way comparable to the Holocaust. No way! That's ridiculous. And anyway, how many HIV positive teens are in the schools? How many of them are excluded for reasons other than medical reasons? It's just a lame premise that, like everyone these days, assumes everyone will live forever except people with HIV.

[CMAC51]

18 venomous reply posts, including yours, and nobody bothers recognizing the fact that they are reacting to the words of the article author, not Jenna Bush's.

Author - "And Bush has the audacity to tell USA Today that she envisions her teen-single-mother-with-AIDS book as having the same influence as Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank. "

Jenna Bush - "...hopes her book will have some of the influence of two books about girls caught up in the Holocaust: Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars and Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank."

There is a world of difference between "the same", a bold objective and "some", a modest objective.

I guess in the quest to belittle someone, details don't matter.

[edsheppa]

I think the author makes some valid points.

And that is relevant how?

[Dante3]

Absolutely. And to use Anne Frank to promote such a book speaks for itself. What is next - Anne Frank's face in a TV commercial for trashy T-shirts made in China? Some things should remain sacred and above cheap commercialization.