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The Virus of Critical Social Justice

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The Emotional Tenor of HIV and AIDS

HIV and AIDS have clearly captured the emotional tenor of our time, infusing sexuality and politics with a clear emphasis on the virus as dangerous. Media coverage similarly feeds into this frenzy of fear by comparing HIV to biblical plagues, a black death, moral scourges, and even to hell. In 2001, Canadian Ebola scare involving a critically ill Congolese woman caused a public and media panic despite the unlikely odds that Ebola had breached the Canadian border.

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