re: #259 Hecuba’s daughter

Tuskegee was conducted from 1932 to 1972. There are people alive today who grew up knowing first hand victims of this experiment, or whose parents knew these victims. This is not ancient history, especially in the South where racists continue to celebrate the Lost Cause which happened 100 years earlier than Tuskegee. Most Americans are ignorant or uninterested in knowing our history — but when your people have been victimized and are continuing to be victimized by the powerful, it is a lesson you don’t forget. On health metrics, African-Americans are still suffering because they don’t have the resources to get the proper medical care. The past is closer than you think.

and this is how subject matter amateurs get into trouble
i had the idea, so i went looking for justification
goggling got me ” The Tuskegee experiment began in 1932 “
and that’s where i stopped
a complete error on my part.
so you are 100% right on the recency

i’m gonna stay with my general thought:
- it is difficult to objectively use tuskegee to justify not getting vaccinated for covid now.
- given how the vaccines (multiple) were created, by who, the distribution process, and the current pandemic circumstances

viscerally though, absolutely.

and before i make things worse, i think i’ve said enough