There is a real tendency to identify with those ancestors who were oppressed. I can say one of mine was a 14-yr-old girl, bound into service to a rich & powerful man who raped her & then dumped her in a foreign country when pregnant. But another one is the man who did that.
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I deserve neither the sympathy that girl merits nor the condemnation the man does. We should remember history and learn moral lessons from it. I think we largely have but can continue to make moral progress. Sins of the fathers is a terrible way of determining judgement.
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Many (most?) historical wrongs cannot be righted and any attempts to do so simply create new injustices in the present. How could anyone undo a genocide? Un-kill the victims? Give their descendants money?
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Will this subject be covered in your book? If not, I'm sorry but you're gonna have to write another book.
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I don't think they care whether the descendants think it's 'justified' or 'fair'. Once those descendants become a minority, they will be out-voted and forced to pay regardless. At the end of the day, this is just an extortion scheme. Always was.
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A coherent argument can be made when a cultural subgroup is still affected by historical exploitation although excoriating the descendants of the exploiters is still not justified & fair reparations might be impossible to measure.
For gender? No. Our ancestors were both sexes.
