Fans Down on Downey for Column That Said Magic Shouldn’t Play

So some Australians want to boycott the Olympics to avoid the nearly nil risk of contracting HIV from Magic Johnson? Perhaps the U.S. men’s basketball team should consider a boycott, too. That way we won’t run even the remotest risk of terminal ignorance. That ignorance should have died in the Outback years ago.

KEITH E. EDWARDS

Los Angeles