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mock_the_stupid is like shooting ducks in a barrel of honey, but still-

A post is made, mocking a Ugandan AIDS education pamphlet for including what would seem to us to be really obvious information but apparently...isn't to them.

Many commentors think the poster has gone to the wrong place, and aren't really seeing anything worth pointing and LOLing at, considering the actual AIDS education situation in Uganda.

Mod Opalcat, however, isn't at all happy with the people criticizing her decision that it's mockworthy, and after arguing with a handful of commentors in aforelinked threads, posts a comments-locked modpost:

10:32 pm - MTS is not PC. And it isn't going to be.

If you can't live with that, please don't let the door hit ya.

The overkill PC whinging is really fucking tiring. We get it already. Get over it or leave. Honestly.

This brings more comments to the original post, mostly by people venting what they couldn't say in the modpost.

Of course, there are also others who think the mock is perfectly hilarious and are quick to ~~call those who don't oversensitive PC pussies~~ defend the post's merits.

Relatively small, but considering the modpost, I thought it had progressed beyond the clairvoyant stage.

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	dragonfangirl 2007-06-22 09:57 am UTC (link)
	"This is NOT safe, especially not if his brother died of AIDS..." Oh lord. I mean. I know they need to know this, and all. But. Oh lord. (Reply to this)(Thread)

thesilentsenshi
2007-06-22 03:09 pm UTC (link)

I admit that was my first reaction too. I would never post smething like that to be publicly mocked or anything, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't kind of snicker a bit in my head. It was a kneejerk reaction. Once I stopped giggling, I was, yeah I guess it is need to know info.

That would be like another country mocking the fact that our companies now have to label hot coffee & tea cups with a disclaimer about being hot.

People are stupid and need to be told obvious stuff all the time in our country too. I think needing to label Hot Coffee hot is actually a lot more stupid than a pamphlet trying to educate about AIDs. But what do I know?

Besides, I was more giggling because of the multiple wives and brother's wife thing, which I hadn't known was a normal thing over there until now. Go ahead. Mock me for not knowing about the marital procedures in Africa. That OP would probably agree I deserve it. :p

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	dragonfangirl 2007-06-22 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	Well, for me it wasn't so much of a laughing moment as an oh-my-god-what-has-this-planet-come-to moment, but I think someone in the comments there hit something on the head: you gotta laugh or go crazy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

thesilentsenshi
2007-06-22 07:08 pm UTC (link)

Oh there was that too. Then I took in the art and the artist in me kind of giggled at how it reminded me of the Old Testament stories. *mind in the gutter for sure* XD

What can I say. I'm a pervert. I admit it. I wasn't laughing about people in africa at all, but at our own history.

And what came last? The feminist in me cringing a bit at how the man is seated lording it over a harem of women. And how he should not sleep around and make sure his "women" didn't either. And how it was sad people need to be told to be faithful to each other. And yes, I've been watching too much of G4's "Cheaters" to the point I'm depressed that even people here sometimes seem to miss that obvious memo.

I had many many reactions to do with that pamphlet, most if which had absolutely nothing to do with aids or real life in Africa (since I know very little about that).

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greenling
2007-06-23 10:20 am UTC (link)

That would be like another country mocking the fact that our companies now have to label hot coffee & tea cups with a disclaimer about being hot.

People are stupid and need to be told obvious stuff all the time in our country too. I think needing to label Hot Coffee hot is actually a lot more stupid than a pamphlet trying to educate about AIDs. But what do I know?

It's not even that. It's a pamphlet, and it's probably made by social workers.

If they think they need to tell you something, they will tell you very. Slowly. Enunciated greatly. In explicit detail. From the very first step to the very last step. And then they will ask you if you have any questions, and they will give you a bunch of numbers you can call if you need help, and then they will pat you on the head and give you a lolly.

It's sort of hard to breed the Mommy out of some people.

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	lyppy 2007-06-25 03:31 am UTC (link)
	That would be like another country mocking the fact that our companies now have to label hot coffee & tea cups with a disclaimer about being hot. I thought we did mock that. Or at least I do. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	warchio 2007-06-22 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think it's stating the obvious as much as it seems. On a second reading - cos I was eye-rolly on the first too - I think the writer meant that the brother MIGHT have died of AIDS and no-one knew. More "And if it's possible that your brother died of AIDs then it's really not safe to shag his wife.' (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dragonfangirl
2007-06-23 12:36 am UTC (link)

True, that also occurred to me -- while reading some of the comments which were "Died of a sexually transmitted disease = don't have sex, DUH!" the question popped to my fingers: But how would you know for sure? Especially if they don't have reliable AIDS testing and the quality of health in the area is low anyway; it's not like AIDS causes a big rash to raise on your forehead reading "HAY I HAVE AIDS." How do you tell the difference between someone who died of pneumonia because of an HIV-weakened immune system, and someone who died of pneumonia anyway?

But then I had to sit on my hands, because, you know. Trolling the wank = bad.

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