'good guys making hard decisions for the greater good.'
I don't know man?
'Experiment on the blacks, I mean they can't vote anyway!' Sounds like a pretty easy decision to me for a scheming group of politicians and generals.
Greater good might hold up if we experimented on them only in times of war, but that hasn't been our history. The experimenting is why they have such high disease rates in the first place. Similar socioeconomic populations do not. For instance, Brazilian blacks. Or Peruvian or Colombian blacks. The projects were probably even built, in part, specifically with an eye to these kinds of tests.
Occam's razor. "Who should we run the human testing on sirs?"
"Marginalized group that's not allowed to vote sounds good to us son!"
It wasn't just on black Americans, even for LAC (let alone the countless other experiments carried out on civilians). This paper [1] has a lot more details. Just quoting it:
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"Other test locations were selected to simulate other Soviet cities (such as San Francisco, CA and Panama City, FL), forests (such as Chippewa National Forest, MN), flatlands (such as Fort Wayne, IN, and Corpus Christi, TX), deserts, and unpopulated areas (Dugway Proving Ground, UT)."
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The paper includes extensive details on the other reasons the areas that were chosen was chosen. It has nothing to do with who lived there, let alone voting trends. For things like this, the government simply comes up with a cover story, and most people simply believe what they're told. In this case, they told people that they were testing a harmless aerosol clouding system to protect areas from the Soviets bombers. And people simply unquestioningly believed them.
As for the projects, they were built in a similar way to Soviet apartment buildings because they had the exact same goal - reliable and comfortable housing made as affordably as possible. Wiki has a great picture of the projects that were experimented with here. [2] The city tore down some old deteriorating slums and created that complex under designs from the same guy who designed with World Trade Center.
I don't know man?
'Experiment on the blacks, I mean they can't vote anyway!' Sounds like a pretty easy decision to me for a scheming group of politicians and generals.
Greater good might hold up if we experimented on them only in times of war, but that hasn't been our history. The experimenting is why they have such high disease rates in the first place. Similar socioeconomic populations do not. For instance, Brazilian blacks. Or Peruvian or Colombian blacks. The projects were probably even built, in part, specifically with an eye to these kinds of tests.
Occam's razor. "Who should we run the human testing on sirs?"
"Marginalized group that's not allowed to vote sounds good to us son!"