AIDS Terminology
Concerning Alan Lubock’s July 16 letter protesting Calendar’s use of the expression “AIDS stricken”:
While small-minded people are arguing about terminology, sick people are dying.
After giving the matter a great deal of thought I couldn’t find anything “uncompassionate” (to use Lubock’s word) about the phrase “AIDS stricken,” as opposed to his preferred term, the unwieldy “person with AIDS” or PWA.
Get your priorities straight, people!
The same kind of nit-picking happens within the black community often. While “leaders” are discussing whether they should be called “Negro”, “black” or “African-American,” the uneducated, poverty-level person of color can be called “disenfranchised,” still.
DIANE SILVER
Arleta
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