I think Coates gave the most successful testimony at the reparations hearing. He did this by abandoning many of his usual tricks: reparations come from the government, not from white people; they're similar to other repayments of debt, not some magical, transcendent thing; etc.
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Replying to @olivertraldi
When I run through this in my head, the most persuasive argument for reparations is as a recompense for stolen property. But I don't see it presented very often in this way.
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Replying to @DogOfPoasts
One problem, I guess, is how do you explain settling that debt and not giving Native Americans... the whole country back.
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Replying to @DogOfPoasts
yeah, i mean if the chain of custody matters in property law then there's a lot of there there. that chain sure goes some funny places though
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i mean, if somebody sells you a house, then loses the money at the racetrack and gets hit by a bus, then you find out they didn't actually own the house and was just squatting there, i'm no property lawyer but i assume the owner takes possession and you're just fucked
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yeah and in a normal real estate transaction you pay a couple thousand dollars to whoever (title insurance? title search? idr wtf it's all called) to make sure that that isn't what's happening
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where in the analogy i guess what we have is the case where the scammer also runs the title agency
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Replying to @chaosprime @olivertraldi
someone should try that Very Reputable Title Agency
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