https://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/consider-reparations.html … @robinhanson argues for slavery reparations. This is a good and important post even if you aren't usually a Hanson fan.
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Any halfway sane person knows that black Americans have been wronged by slavery and subsequent rights violations (segregation & expropriation, especially of housing.) The question is, how should such wrongs be righted?
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US politics has overwhelmingly chosen to *compensate for disadvantages* rather than *reverse and pay for injustices.* Affirmative action instead of reparations.
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What's the difference? in particular I thought "reverse and pay for injustices" is what affirmative action does? Even an unbiased society would take a while to balance how many positions of power each group has, affirmative action speeds up the reversal of this injustice.
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Instead of compensating the *specific people* who had their labor stolen or their homes vandalized etc for those *specific* crimes, affirmative action gives some arbitrary advantages to people who share a demographic category with the victims, at the discretion of decisionmakers.
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It's a mushy, highly discretionary policy, rather than a crisp and rule-bound one.
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