It's comical that some liberal American pundits will now pretend to care more about land reform in #SouthAfrica than black South Africans do, merely because @realDonaldTrump tweeted about it and therefore he must be a racist & wrong.
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Replying to @joelpollak @realDonaldTrump
"Land reform" that splendid communist euphemism for theft.
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I’m not familiar with the history of land title claims in South Africa but if you believe in Natural Rights, any land possessed via aggression rather than a sale ought to be nullified. Rothbard discusses this in Ethics of Liberty. Do colonial invasion/rule count as aggression?
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Statute of limitations. Laches. We are talking agressions that allegedly happened centuries ago. Time limits for recovery are a universal aspect of humane property law, otherwise practically all titles everywhere would be the subject of multiple disputes.
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Fair points. In that case, I’d argue that the statue of limitations should start when those who have been dispossessed of property can make a practical claim to have their property reassigned. Eg you’re part of a class who’s rights claims are not recognized by the legal process
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The specific descendants of those allegedly dispossessed are not the ones who would succeed in title to a given property. They are almost never even of the same clan, only of the same race. In short there is nothing in humane property law that allows this, it's a racist pogrom.
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