Dennis Prager: Imagine If During the AIDS Crisis, Gay Men ‘Had Been Pariahs the Way the Non-Vaccinated Are’

Josh FeldmanNov 8th, 2021, 7:09 pm
 

Dennis Prager made a rather eyebrow-raising comment on Monday comparing the covid-19 pandemic to the AIDS crisis.

Prager was on Newsmax Monday telling Chris Salcedo President Joe Biden “ruined” the economy with his policies.

“If we survive this as a free country, historians will just ask how did this happen? How did people get governed by irrational fears?”

One of those “irrational” fears he cited was the millions of unvaccinated Americans.

Prager, who recently said he deliberately got covid-19 so he could have natural immunity (as opposed to getting the vaccine), said unvaccinated Americans are “the pariahs of America as I have not seen in my lifetime.”

And then he made this comparison:

During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, who were the vast majority of the people with AIDS, had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would have been inconceivable. And it should have been inconceivable! They should not have been made pariahs. But this is kosher, this is okay.

There was in fact a lot of stigma towards the gay community during the AIDS crisis, something many people pointed out on Twitter in response to Prager’s commentary and rejecting his comparison. TPM’s Josh Marshall noted important difference is that gay men in the 80s were “pleading for medical care not avoiding it.”

You can watch Prager’s comments above, via Newsmax.

h/t Jason Campbell

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