Re: Kate vs. Diana

[pohlke@inf.fu-berlin.de (Andreas Pohlke)]

lvermeer@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Leslie Vermeer) writes:
>>> >>Did you know that when she took her sons to see AIDS patients that this
>>> >>paragon of virtue told her sons the people had cancer...not AIDS? What do
>>> >>you think about that?
>>> It's REALLY true. During one of the tributes to her life, I heard the words
>>> directly from her mouth, on screen.
>>What difference does it make what Dianna told her boys?  I don't find
>>this at all shocking or in the least bad parenting.  Parents often tell
[snip]
>Yes, but why turn AIDS into cancer, when they're both horrible diseases
>with the same outcome? Is cancer a preferable thing to die from? I think
>what is being questioned here is the politics of euphemism: replacing
>something offensive to one's sensibilities with something else, presumably
[snip]

And discussions like that: disputes on a displaced fragment, are
what makes yellowpress have more than two pages per issue-
and I do participate. CNR. Stupid me.
Andreas.

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