…they would press their temple to the cold barrel of that gun and look you straight in the eyes and say, “I’d rather die than ever look anything up myself. So either you look this up for me or you pull the trigger mother fucker!!!”
…they would press their temple to the cold barrel of that gun and look you straight in the eyes and say, “I’d rather die than ever look anything up myself. So either you look this up for me or you pull the trigger mother fucker!!!”
Honestly with the first question my mind just kinda blanks but the second one gets at least few gears turning even though I don’t even know point a and b.
my gut instinct response is “that’s an interesting question, what do you think <repeat question asked back at them>”
It’s hard for me to imagine circumstances under which I’d enjoy being lead into a discussion about AIDS deaths.
it can be a learning experience starting out with a guesstimation of deaths caused by the disease, learning about the actual number of deaths both in the LGBT+ community and the wider world, then steer it into a historical discussion about how right-wing ideology of being hateful bigots turning a blind eye and gagging the truth lead to so many preventable deaths under the capitalist system, and how if even mitigation and symptom treatment research was started as early as the epidemic was discovered, Freddie might still be here today, among so many other folks that could’ve shined brightly as him.