{"id":124405,"date":"2019-12-22T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/22\/i-lived-through-aids-denialism-in-south-africa-morrisons-slippery-climate-stance-is-doomed-sisonke-msimang\/"},"modified":"2019-12-22T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T13:00:15","slug":"i-lived-through-aids-denialism-in-south-africa-morrisons-slippery-climate-stance-is-doomed-sisonke-msimang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=124405","title":{"rendered":"I lived through Aids denialism in South Africa. Morrison&#039;s slippery climate stance is doomed | Sisonke Msimang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using tactics straight out of the Trump playbook, the PM has mocked those who are outspokenIt is painful to watch political denial in action. Believe me, I\u2019ve been down this road before. I lived through Aids denialism in South Africa and I\u2019m witnessing denial again in Australia.In the last few weeks, as fires have raged across New South Wales, and as the nation has grown increasingly furious about Scott Morrison\u2019s lack of leadership, I have felt like I am in a time warp. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/23\/i-lived-through-aids-denialism-in-south-africa-scott-morrisons-slippery-climate-stance-is-doomed\" target=\"_blank\">I lived through Aids denialism in South Africa. Morrison&#039;s slippery climate stance is doomed | Sisonke Msimang<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using tactics straight out of the Trump playbook, the PM has mocked those who are outspokenIt is painful to watch political denial in action. Believe me, I\u2019ve been down this road before. I lived through Aids denialism in South Africa and I\u2019m witnessing denial again in Australia.In the last few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}