Opinion of this Marianne Williamson quote on AIDS

[Alben Barkley]

Translation:

“AIDS is like any other ‘bad guy’ such as Darth Vader: It might seem bad on the surface but deep down it has a heart of gold. If you just write letters to AIDS asking it nicely to stop hurting you because you know it is really good like an angel, maybe it will.”

Anybody who can read this and think anything other than “This is bats—t insane” is, themselves, bats—t insane. That goes for everyone in this thread defending this.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Could we have some temporal context here?

In the 1980s:

A. AIDS was completely untreatable and was a death sentence within two years, often quicker.

B. It was a disease with an INTENSE taboo attached, and people could lose their families, housing, support networks, churches, communities, etc. when diagnosed.

Marianne Williamson started up a charity which gave out millions of meals to AIDS patients and provided caring, compassionate care to people at a time when there was no effective medical solution available. She helped people, when faced with a guaranteed death sentence, ways to face their condition with compassion, dignity, and courage.

Marianne Williamson isn't going to tell non-exposed people to stop using PREP or to tell HIV patients to stop taking their antivirals to lower their viral load or whatever today. We are lucky enough that medication that can address this issue. People 30 years ago did NOT have that, and at a time of great moral panic and taboo about that disease, Marianne Williamson met people with compassion and open arms.

A true modern day Mother Teresa.

[Roronoa D. Law]

Marianne Williamson is the only entertaining thing this whole cycle and you guys still trying to drag her through the mud.