The beatroot writes [1] about hysteria in the Polish tabloids: “Simon is pleading not guilty, of course. It's like one of those off-the-peg stories Polish tabloid journos dream of: ‘Black African artistic seducer infects innocent Polish girls with HIV!!! Knowledge about HIV – and Africans, for that matter – is very limited here. Just ripe for a scare story.”
Poland: “Africans+AIDS+Poland=racism”
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Poland, Ethnicity & Race, Health, Human Rights, Media & Journalism, Protest