Black men were given Syphilis by the U.S. government. This is a fact.
No, not quite. Scientists, working for the government in a study, refused to treat black subjects of a syphilis test, and encouraged them not to seek treatment. When it began, it was legitimate, because the treatments commonly given for syphilis actually were toxic and dangerous, and probably made people even worse - where they went so wrong was in not informing the subjects properly, and then witholding treatment after effective medicine was discovered. And to my knowledge, they never actively infected anyone. You can argue that, morally speaking, infecting someone and convincing someone not to be treated are fairly similar, but it's not technically accurate, as far as I know.
If you have a source saying that they actually intentionally infected people, then I'll be happy to withdraw my objection.
So if anybody wants to laugh at any black person that would have the idiocy to think the U.S. government would purposefully infect black people with a S.T.D....
remember, the US government DID do it before, so the idea is not that outrageous.
Actually, it is outrageous. And I'll give you several reasons why that is so.
1. The results of the Tuskegee experiments became widely known in the early 1970's. As a result, standards were set up regarding medical experimentation which are harder to avoid - so the chances of this happening again are much, much lower, just scientifically.
2. Being found infecting people like this would be even worse political suicide now than it was then. Politicians are selfish creatures, and I don't think they'd endanger their jobs out of random spite towards black people. It's not that I think they're too good - just that they're too selfish.
3. It wasn't possible to create a virus like HIV/AIDS in the 1950's, when it was first discovered. I'm not sure it'd even be possible today, but it certainly wouldn't have been fifty years ago.
4. There's absolutely no evidence suggesting that this is true.
5. What Wright is talking about is an intentional campaign to eliminate minorities, not a medical test. Tuskegee was a medical test - the goal had a legitimate medical purpose, even if the way they went about the study was horrible and immoral on numerous grounds. That is entirely different from genocide, which is what Wright is proposing. And when you're going to accuse someone, especially your own government, of genocide, you need proof. (See 4) Need any more, or is that enough?
Believing that the US government invented AIDS to kill black people is stupid on so many levels. I guess it's only moderately more stupid than the NAU or 9/11 conspiracy theories ethat you've defended in the past, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you're defending this now. But I am, just a little.