Wear A Condom Or Be Like Hitler!

[Eggyman]

Romping Hitler Aids ad criticised


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A graphic Aids-awareness TV advert which features an Adolf Hitler lookalike having sex has been condemned by HIV charities. It will be shown on German TV next week ahead of World Aids Day in December.
The German charity behind the film says Aids has killed 30 million people worldwide, and it wants to shake people up by linking Aids with mass murder.
But other organisations said it could be Aids sufferers, not the disease itself, who are associated with Hitler.

The steamy advert shows a couple having sex, but it is only at the end that the man is revealed as the German dictator.
A tagline then reads: "Aids is a mass murderer."
'Insensitive'
The campaign, which also features mocked-up posters of Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein having sex with naked women, was organised with Aids-awareness group Regenbogen e.V.

We asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face

Dirk Silz
Das Comitee advertising agency


But UK-based HIV charity the Terrence Higgins Trust says it is concerned the advert could be "insensitive", by stigmatising people with the condition.
Vicky Sheard, the organisation's policy officer, told the BBC News website: "One in four people in the UK with HIV doesn't know he or she has it, so anything that could increase stigmatisation and discourage them from coming forward to be tested isn't helpful.
"The dangerous thing about it [the advert] is there doesn't appear to be any accompanying public health message as far as encouraging people to stay safe and use condoms.
"Also, treatment in Europe these days means it's very possible for people with HIV to live a healthy lifespan."
The Hamburg-based Das Comitee advertising agency, which made the film, said it was designed to shock people into avoiding sex without contraception.
"We asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face," Dirk Silz, creative director of Das Comitee, told AFP news agency.
"The campaign is designed to shake people up, to bring the topic of Aids back to centre stage, and to reverse the trend of unprotected sexual intercourse."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8240793.stm

Anyone seen anything about this? Don't screw Hitler, he has the aids and is a naughty boy. I was asking Jenny The German at work what she thought about it and she just laughed and changed the subject. What is going on? Can we not use something else to teach? We have to use the sexface of Hitler to get people to put a hat on it? The world is insane.

 

[SuperFerret]

Any use of Hitler in a humorous way is good, especially if it's offensive. I approve.

 

[Eggyman]

I'm not surprised. Rumour has it he used to use ferrets in his debauchery.

 

[knowsbleed]

I've heard that Hitler likes pineapples up the bum. So, if you like AIDS and pineapples up bums, you also like Hitler... el sickos.

 

[VampElvis]

I heard he the whole ferret.

I say get over it. If it will help slow the spread of AIDS, air it!

 

[Majic Walrus]

Whatever the outcome the campaign worked. Shocking people into thinking about AIDS was it's whole purpose.

 

[chamber-music]

I don't think Xenu and Tom Cruise would approve

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

I think it's actually a very effective concept that is bound to make people think at least twice. I don't understand why some would be offended by it since the vast majority of people despise everything Hitler was and stood for.

Air it.

 

[Drakon]

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

@ Drakon:

Oh my. LOL

 

[Drakon]

You prefer maybe rap?

 

[SuperFerret]

Mel Brooks is god.

 

[E-Man]

I'm sick of Hitler. Can't we get a new villain to hate? Mumm-Ra's got to be available.

 

[SuperFerret]

Mumm-Ra hasn't done crap since the 80's. I guess he should do what Hitler did: choose a minority group (in this case, cat-people) and kill a large number of them in a horrible fashion (for cat-people, a series of baths would probably torture them badly enough for them to die).

 

[C.F. Kane]

I think this ad really works. I can't think of anything that will stop procreation faster than the thought of Der Fuhrer's O-Face.

 

[Drakon]

It's sad, the people who shouldn't have kids are having them by the litter, and the ones who should, are smart enough not to.