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Liberal Fascism

If Books Could Kill

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Mussolini's Framing of the Myth of Syphilis

Tuskegee experiments were inspired by this liberal idea of like, we have to help black people. This was before there were any effective treatments for syphilis. So you could say that it was liberals, but also racism was so bipartisan at that point. Everyone thought that syphilis was different in black people than it was in white people because black people were like less evolved.

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