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by anthony_romeo 1475 days ago
Neither syphilis nor unsafe sex nor HIV are unique to gay men, nor is monkeypox. I think that is enough to genuinely disqualify it as a ‘gay disease’.
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And your response is a disingenuous one, because I never said that. What I am saying is that gay men are at a much, much, much higher risk of getting/spreading it due to their lifestyle choices, and it seems stupid to always have to avoid saying that because of political correctness.
I was responding to your suggestion that avoiding calling monkeypox a ‘gay disease’ was “just political correctness” by suggesting that some meaningful percentage may instead be “actual correctness.”