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When the french homosexual philosopher Michel Foucault was warned about AIDS by his friend and colleague Edmund White, he disregarded the illness, considering it was just a hoax to use power and knowledge to exercise yet another form of social control through societal institutions.
He was quoted saying: "Oh that's perfect Edmund: you American puritans, you’re always inventing diseases. And one that singles out blacks, drug users and gays – how perfect!".
On 26 June of 1984, Foucault died of AIDS.