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  • First of all, if I did delete my comment, how would other people have content to your outrage?

    Second, Help me understand how giving an example of money buying health is bigotry, ignorance, entitlement, or arrogance.
    At no point did I disparage Magic Johnson or say anything derogatory towards people with HIV/AIDS. Maybe I picked a bad example, sure. I’m highly confident that every single millionaire and billionaire has spent more on health care than the average person.

    Honestly you are making some of my point for me. Yes, tremendous effort went into normalizing a deadly disease that was previously demonized as only afflicting “the gays” and “junkies” … By spending massive amounts of money, work that could not have happened without financial backing “everyone” up to that point didn’t see a reason to expend.

    Purely a philosophic question, Still no offense to Mr. Johnson, but would he have spent any of that time effort and money if he didn’t personally have HIV?


  • Apologies if you somehow missed the larger context of my post. I’m not trying to specifically bash Magic Johnson for his efforts expanding awareness of and research into HIV/AIDS, I’m trying to make a point that money literally buys time in this world.
    The comment I replied to is a line from a song simply stating “and all your money won’t another minute buy” and I pointed out an example of someone buying years of time with money.