Originally Posted by
duped_samaritan
ok mitch
touche but honestly i think the concept of reparations as a practical goal is fucking absurd. 1) its been 156 years and 2) slavery was just one element of a campaign of oppression and subjugation that literally built (and continues to build) the modern world and 3) there were over 3 million slaves freed by the EP... what sort of compensation exactly does one provide and to whom?
even the black caucus cant reach a consensus on what this would look like or if they should even discuss it, because the one (1) thing its guaranteed to accomplish is pushing moderates away from the left while galvanizing the far right even more.
and who can blame them? have you seen the shit the pro-reparations crowd is demanding? they are basing their expectations on reagan's 1988 civil liberties act; $20k to 100,000 japanese internment camp victims.
adjusted, thats about $40k today.
reparationists want a check for $40k delivered to each one of the 42 million black americans alive today.
that's their baseline for success on this issue.
and when they dont get it, you know who they are going to tear down? the left. they are already tarring and feathering AOC who, for no apparent reason, wanted to roll reparations into her green new deal. black caucus lost its fucking shit over that.
so yeah, pretty fucking dumb hill to die on imo.