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89: Mass Confusion
Historical Resistance to Integration and Medical Justification
A clip from the 1950s features a Southern man expressing fear over school integration and the use of federal troops. The hosts link this historical fear to the "scientific" justifications provided by doctors like Benjamin Rush. They argue that the same medicalized fear was used during COVID-19 to suggest that Black Americans were more susceptible to the virus to encourage vaccine uptake.