If black people are entitled to "reparations," even though not a single one of them living today was ever a slave and not a single person who will have to pay for it had anything to do with slavery since it ended 158 years ago, why aren't white and Asian people, who ARE alive today and actually did suffer through systemic racism themselves at the hands of others who are also still alive today, entitled to reparations for the suffering they went through from the racist Affirmative Action laws over the last 60 years?
Systemic denotes an organized conspiracy. Naah. An apparent consensus after WW2 and Vietnam? Maybe.
How far back do we go in reparations and who pays them and to whom? I am Scot-Irish (with a few drops of Cherokee. Who writes my checks and should I receive one from Americans and two from the British?
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I mean I don't consider myself a victim of systematic racism though? Like yeah I'm not eligible for race-based scholarships or whatever, but those scholarships were made for those people to begin with and simply wouldn't exist if not to solve that specific issue. The money was never going to be mine. 🤷♀️ I have more of an issue with hiring/acceptance quotas etc because I don't think they're entirely realistic sometimes, but honestly I don't care that much.
I do believe they should unfortunately it won't happen though because people don't believe white people and Asians ever suffered. I have heard stories about how white women had their kids stolen from them just because they were a single mother and not married. Yet hardly anyone ever acknowledges it.
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No, reparations is a stupid idea with break-the-bank consequences.
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you know japanese americans did get reparations right? whether they were alive or not during WW2 people and their descendants who were in internment camps received reparations in the 1980s
Nobody of any race is entitled to reparations. But any systemic racism against anyone should be halted immediately.
Yet another question about "race". Well and truly tired of hearing about this imaginary problem.
No reparations for anyone over this crap or other crap. I'm tired of hearing about it.
I don't think any race should be get reparations.
Why not? My white ancestors were slaves long before and blacks over here were.
I was denied financial aid to go to college. I should be compensated for the ten years I had to work a crapoy low wage job. They should throw in another 5 million for the suffering t oo.
My company screwed me out of career opportunities for women and minorities. I explicitly denied access to an internal management program as it was for women only now. There are real finical damages from that as the program led to prime job placement in the company.
You're not the brightest, it seems, as that is not what "reparations" are about.
But next year, when you finish school, we'll talk about it, and laugh at your naïve stupidity together.
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This has to be the dumbest person on the planet.
How about blacks go back to Africa and we just call it even?
By the left's logic yes. But that's not an economically sound policy.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
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