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Two trips to Auschwitz this year, my friend. I was responding -- in a perverse and ironic fashion -- to this meme that I hear oft repeated that the US gov't wo

Two trips to Auschwitz this year, my friend. I was responding -- in a perverse and ironic fashion -- to this meme that I hear oft repeated that the US gov't wouldn't conspire to kill its own people ...

gnosis 14y ago
Were you making jokes at Auschwitz too?
- benthumb 14y ago
  Not meant to be a joke -- far from it. What it WAS was an ill-considered expression of outrage. And, btw, FU.
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    >FU You're not even new here. Why is it even relevant that you visited Auschwitz?
    - pyre 14y ago
      Something along the lines of: > I'm not racist! I have black friends!
neumann_alfred 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment 40 years! I will never wrap my brain around this one. And no, I don't mean to say "that's just as bad as the Nazis". But still. 40 years. So much for rather hideous crap being impossible to keep secret, right? I can't help but think, if something like this can stay secret for 40 years, real horrid geopolitical stuff involving sending people to war based on deception, and pluging a country into debt to fleece them, would stay secret for much longer EZ PZ. Which doesn't prove anything of course, other than that "something like this is impossible to keep secret" seems to be wishful thinking.
- noibl 14y ago
  While the Tuskegee experiment followed the natural progression of syphilis in those already infected, in Guatemala [US Public Health Service] doctors deliberately infected healthy people (having just defeated the Nazis). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment
- eitland 14y ago
  speaking of nazis: I guess they would have been delighted to see the way for example people with Down's syndrome get removed before they are even born. And the way it is done voluntarily. Same disrespect, new wrapping. Instead of "to the greater good of the people" it is now "their parents right to decide." (Startup lesson: Don't underestimate marketing. It might be the difference between "hero" and "villain".)
dwiel 14y ago
Right, they would never even think of iy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

gnosis 14y ago

Were you making jokes at Auschwitz too?

benthumb 14y ago
Not meant to be a joke -- far from it. What it WAS was an ill-considered expression of outrage. And, btw, FU.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  >FU You're not even new here. Why is it even relevant that you visited Auschwitz?
  - pyre 14y ago
    Something along the lines of: > I'm not racist! I have black friends!

neumann_alfred 14y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment 40 years! I will never wrap my brain around this one. And no, I don't mean to say "that's just as bad as the Nazis". But still. 40 years. So much for rather hideous crap being impossible to keep secret, right? I can't help but think, if something like this can stay secret for 40 years, real horrid geopolitical stuff involving sending people to war based on deception, and pluging a country into debt to fleece them, would stay secret for much longer EZ PZ. Which doesn't prove anything of course, other than that "something like this is impossible to keep secret" seems to be wishful thinking.

noibl 14y ago
While the Tuskegee experiment followed the natural progression of syphilis in those already infected, in Guatemala [US Public Health Service] doctors deliberately infected healthy people (having just defeated the Nazis). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment
eitland 14y ago
speaking of nazis: I guess they would have been delighted to see the way for example people with Down's syndrome get removed before they are even born. And the way it is done voluntarily. Same disrespect, new wrapping. Instead of "to the greater good of the people" it is now "their parents right to decide." (Startup lesson: Don't underestimate marketing. It might be the difference between "hero" and "villain".)

dwiel 14y ago

Right, they would never even think of iy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods