At what stage does it become “historical” ? Hours , days , weeks?
It's deadly to use historical grievances and disputes as reasons to confiscate property. Such disputes can never be fairly settled, they can only be fought via brute politics or even raw brute force, ad infinitum.https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1033457605140611073 …
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Principles of laches, statutes of limitations, and similar apply, involving especially the recency and quality of evidence regarding the alleged wrong, the specific former owners to whom that wrong was allegedly done, and the specific heirs of said alleged victim.
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Although there is a recent example how to remedy property confiscations dating back up to 40 years: The Law on „property issues“ between East and West Germany. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offene_Verm%C3%B6gensfragen …
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I think it can work well where there are good property records and clearly identifiable legal heirs as here.
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We shouldn’t have to pay for the sins of our grandfathers
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Especially when the vast majority of them are not the sins of my particular grandfathers, they are the sins of a few other peoples' grandfathers who share my skin color,nand the evidence has all but disappeared for the claims of the alleged victims of those few of those.
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The answer is to uphold property law and politically fight people who oppose overriding property law in order to redress some general, and usually classist or racist, grievance.
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I'm not afraid of the man who is poor and wants a house, car and color tv. I'm very afraid of the man who has a house, car and color TV and now wants redress for past grievousness, respect on the world stage and return of "stolen" lands.
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Brother you are fighting the good fight intellectually and I just want to give you props and pass thanks for all you are doing.
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Naaah — you’re wrong dude! When things are as obscene (as is the case in South Africa), the government should interne to balance the playing field.
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Sounds like "Civil unrestitution". This pervasive idea that the dominant elements of a society must make amends for the crimes of their ancestors. It foments race hatred and erodes the peace.
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