{"id":5598,"date":"2009-09-07T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2009-09-07T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:26:22","slug":"the-aids-is-a-mass-murderer-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-aids-is-a-mass-murderer-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cAIDS is a Mass Murderer Ad\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A German advertisement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1211705\/German-advert-featuring-Hitler-having-sex-Aids-awareness-campaign-slammed-angry-HIV-charities.html\" target=\"_blank\">compares AIDS<\/a> to Adolf Hitler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tasteless advertisement featuring Adolf Hitler having sex has been condemned by HIV charities.<\/p>\n<p>The steamy advert, filmed by a German charity, features the couple having sex &#8211; but only at the end is the man revealed to be Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>The ad &#8211; produced in German, Spanish and English versions &#8211; also features mocked-up posters of Josef Stalin and Saddam Hussein having sex with naked women.<\/p>\n<p>The tagline reads: &#8216;Aids is a mass murderer&#8217;. It is set to be shown on German television next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 the Das Comitee advertising agency said the shock value of the advert is designed to scare people into safe sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The advertisements depict a man and a woman copulating; the shock value \u2013 and certainly the accuracy &#8211; would increase if homosexual sex were the subject of the campaign. Homosexual and bisexual men are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washblade.com\/2009\/8-28\/news\/national\/15098.cfm?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">50 times more likely to have HIV<\/a> than heterosexual men; but running <em>that<\/em> advertisement would have taken guts and be politically incorrect.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gay and bisexual men account for half of new HIV infections in the U.S. and have AIDS at a rate more than 50 times greater than other groups, according to Centers for Disease Control &amp; Prevention data presented at the National HIV Prevention Conference this week in Atlanta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German advertisement compares AIDS to Adolf Hitler: A tasteless advertisement featuring Adolf Hitler having sex has been condemned by HIV charities. The steamy advert, filmed by a German charity, features the couple having sex &#8211; but only at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-aids-is-a-mass-murderer-ad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[2167],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}