Michael Perelman wrote: >The disease metaphor worked because diseases do not always respect such >barriers. > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Build gated communities? No they don't but I think you're underestimating the preference of the privileged to insulate themselves as much as possible from a problem rather than facing it head on. From the first, the response to AIDS has been to ignore its threat to "normal" (i.e., affluent white suburbanites) people, and stigmatize it as a disease of queers, junkies, and racial minorities. Unless lots of people in Scarsdale and Topeka start falling ill, the "normal" people will continue to believe this and act accordingly. I'm sorry to repeat myself on this to the point of boredom, but most intellectuals overestimate the power of reason in politics. Doug
