quote Darknet

May we forget Team America's "Everyone Has AIDs" song?

quote spyrofiro

I don't think it went to far. Though again unless you really have aids you can't tell how bad it is. You can think its not bad but if you actually have it it can seem much worse.

quote Sonecor

According to The Advocate Magine, a scene in The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire, which first aired on June 12th, 2005, has offended many AIDS groups. In the scene, Peter tells Cleveland that is wife Loretta cheated on him because he has a great talent of breaking bad news to people.

As usual, the scene then flashbacked to Peter with 3 others singing a song about AIDS like a Barbershop Quartet to a young man (who has the stereotypical "gay" goatee).

The lyrics are:

Peter: You have AIDS.
Quartet: Yes, you have AIDS.
Peter: I hate to tell you, boy, you have AIDS.
Quartet: You got the AIDS.
Peter: You may have caught it when you stuck that filthy needle in here.
Quartet: Or maybe all that unprotected sex which we hear.
Peter: It isn't clear
Quartet But what we're certain of is that you have AIDS.
Peter:Yes, you have AIDS. Not HIV
Quartet: But full-blown AIDS.
Be sure that you see that this is not HIV, but full blown AIDS.
Not HIV, but full-blown AIDS.
Barbershop Quarter Man: I'm sorry, I wish it was something less serious
Quartet: But it's AIDS. You've got the AIDS.

The FOX Television Network said that viewers of Family Guy should expect the shocking and sometimes "tasteless" humor. They argued that the point was to show how bad Peter was at breaking news to people, not to make fun or offend anyone with the horrible disease.

Fox spokesman Steven Melnick said, "Over the years, Family Guy has skewered virtually every ethnic, religious, and social group. The audience that tunes into this series is well-aware of what to expect from the show: a subversive and sometimes shocking comedic view that occasionally skirts the borders of appropriateness. This scene is not a joke about HIV but rather Peter's ignorance and inability to convey bad news. Given the nature of this series as well as the well-established cluelessness of this particular character, the scene, while certainly abrasive, is not beyond the expectation of the Family Guy audience."

Craig E. Thompson, the executive director of an AIDS project in Los Angeles said that the scene should be "socially unacceptable" to watch. He said that the scene was just as funny as singing about someone with cancer. He also said that the scene disgraces AIDS and "reinforces homiphoiba."

Gene Copello, an AIDS Institute Director said that Family Guy acted irresponsibly by airing the scene. He said FOX should make an immediate apology to all the people living with HIV or AIDS. "There is nothing comical about a person lying in a hospital bed dying of AIDS or any other disease."

Source: Here

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