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hallidae ([info]hallidae) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-06-21 09:13:00


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"Worth Mocking!" "Is not!" "Is too!"
I know, I know, wank from [info]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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[info]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.'

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[info]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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