This is called the critical race road to Donald Trump.https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1107813046695673857 …
It takes about 5 minutes of serious thinking to realize that no possible scheme of 'reparations' could possibly be constitutional, fair, principled, workable, or resistant against massive fraud.
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Trivial concerns compared to taking institutional responsibility for historical wrongs and making a statement that a reckoning for white supremacy has begun.
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I literally can't tell if you're being serious, or satirizing SJWs. Good work.
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Where would you even start? Who would do the calculations???
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It seems like the only right way would be to invest in communities, which could be done without making it so specifically racialised.
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Nor is it clear who should pay whom, on a consequentialist basis. (Slavery is bad on principle, deontologically. Yet that present day African Americans have benefitted immensely *by its having existed* is both absolutely evident, and unspeakable.)
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How so? this seems a real stretch.
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I think American citizenship and a robust social safety net can be framed as a sort of reparations.
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Secure the bag.
#YangGang2020
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That’s a feature not a bug: you could say the same for affirmative action in university admissions, private and public employment, public procurement, research grants...and yet.
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Americans paid for it in rivers of blood and civil war. Apparently hundreds of thousands of dead are not a satisfying solution to modern-day whiners.
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