acknowledgeurma

See:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/09/210138278/japanese-internment-redress
Wherein:

In 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The legislation offered a formal apology and paid out $20,000 in compensation to each surviving victim. The law won congressional approval only after a decade-long campaign by the Japanese-American community.

bahmer

Weren't the Irish the ones that helped build many of the sky scrapers in the big cities? The ones where they are seated on an I beam about forty or fifty stories up swing their legs out in space? Pardon me but my stomach gets queasy just typing it. I am good for about three feet off of the ground and that is it. And that is on a good day.

acknowledgeurma

acknowledgeurma

Well that certainly explains a lot.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

This is one of those bright ideas that just screams for a reductio ad absurdum analysis. Take the original premise, in this case, that some modern people should pay some other modern people 'reparations' for an injustice perpetrated some 150 years ago by some other people against yet other people, none of whom have any bearing or relationship to those living today; whether those supposedly paying up or those on the receiving end of this modern day transfer of funds. Now let's extrapolate that out.

The idea of the German people paying reparations to the Jews for the holocaust, for instance. Good idea. Then there's all the millions of people murdered by Communism in the 20th century. Shouldn't the Russian and Chinese governments be paying out for the loss of family members during these times of governmental insanity? It certainly seems to fit the sentiment, does it not? Pol Pot would certainly be in for some shellackings in that case, wouldn't he?

Then there's the people who sold all these other people into slavery in the first place. They were just as guilty of sustaining the African slave trade as the Yankee traders who gave them beads and tools in return for their captives, is that not so? They need to pony up as well, according to this logic.

Then we get into some really egregious injustices, like those perpetrated against women throughout the ages. How many women were kept down, humiliated, distrusted, belittled, you name it, all in the name of male dominance? More to the point, how much should the male half of the population pony up to their 'better halves' to make good on the misery they undoubtedly wrought upon their female counterparts? Half of everything? More? How do you quantify it? Is it even possible?

Taking this reparations idea to its logical conclusion, it appears that all of humanity owes all of humanity everything. Okay, so let's all pay each other, consider the trillions of debts retired, and go on with our lives just as we did before, because we all paid each other so we all finished up right back where we started.

Or we can simply learn from the past and resolve not to make those mistakes in the future. Deal?

acknowledgeurma

It was not accepted practice by all. But who cares what progressives say?

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

Good question. Let me know if you find anyone.

Mikeyavelli

I worked my way through college. Summer in the factories making good money, and, I wrote essays and term papers for money in college. Tended bar, waited tables and made it without any loans or outside funds. I didn't think that was great or anything, it's just what had to be done.
I'm now the evil poster boy for the left.
White straight well off retired male livin the dream.
I guess it all paid off. But honestly, I never thought I was treated unfairly or worked too hard, it's just the way things were.
Work and get ahead.
A man waits a long time for a roast chicken to fly into his mouth.

olaydee

Cool! There are a lot more mutts than there are purebreds. Gotta luv the mutts!! 🤪

olaydee

“Who is going to pay reparations to the families of all the whites.........”

WOW!! That is one of the best question I have ever seen on this topic. 10++stars 4U 😊

olaydee

I knew it! You are still reading OPP, even though you backed off. You CANNOT help yourself! Please keep posting. Your comments are usually right on and always thought-provoking. And you have made many friends here.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

He is an American citizen and has been for 30 years

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

plainlogic

Well, if that's the route, then, let's check your ancestry and if any of these people did something like owning a slave, robbing someone. Then YOU owe them reparations, right?

A Thinker

I believe as you do. When we find a person any person that was sold into slavery all the previous owners of that person or persons need to pay reparations to that person or persons they held as slaves. That is fair.
Now all you liberal democrats that came over on the Mayflower step forward and fess up. Now if your family is like mine and migrated here after slavery was abolished, clawed, scraped,worked at filthy jobs just to eat and feel no one owes you a living, reparations are not for you.