BOHICA NY- Reparations Edition

[spat]

Best I can do is $3.50.

Yeah, sorry but not sorry - nobody is owed money for shit that didn't happen to them.

You must be that Loch Ness Monster...

 

[Bigfoot]

I wonder how much the commission to study slavery in NY is costing the taxpayers.

Ho Lee Fuk, the sentence above says a lot about NY.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

I wonder how much the commission to study slavery in NY is costing the taxpayers.

Ho Lee Fuk, the sentence above says a lot about NY.

$5 million

 

[Bigfoot]

wE aRe nY herp derp

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[Saltwater60]

Just saying....

The United States is generally about 5 to 8 generations removed from the end of legal slavery in 1865

And many of us didn’t live here or have a thing to do with it when it was.
I have a great idea, send the bill to the UK. After all it was the Europeans that did this. I’m Italian and Irish so the Europeans treated my people terribly as well. Where’s mine? Oh that’s right I worked for mine and I’m happy with what I have. I don’t want it or need it.
What’s next reparations for the Indians? Are we all going back to where we came from and giving them our land for that one?

This crap is ridiculous, but I do agree with people want it they can chose to opt in, but I don’t want to pay for it.

 

[dwa12479]

Descendants of U.S. slavery underwent a centuries-long process that produced a distinct American ethnic group. Those descendants occupy a unique legal and economic position in U.S. history, and reparations policy should centrally factor lineage in determining compensation.

So did plenty of other ethnic groups across the globe since the birth of man kind. So what? No one is owed anything. If someone's not happy with what they have, they can lace up their bootstraps and do something different. Enough with this reparations grift.

And for those that are actually descended from slaves.... had your ancestors NOT been brought here, ask yourself this. Would you be better off today living in the town your ancestors were taken from in Africa?

 

[Tisto]

Perhaps those people that actually are descendents of slaves, those that can actually prove it, should go to Africa and seek reparations from the people that captured and sold your ancestors in the first place.

Let me know how that works out for you.

 

[Tisto]

The first slaves brought to America were IRISH. Well before Africans were brought here.

Why is it that we never hear about Irish American people demanding reparations ? Is it just a different mindset ? Or maybe it's that "white privilege" I keep hearing about - even though they were slaves, they are white, so they recovered all on their own.

 

[Robin]

You don't hear about it cuz all this shit is a divisive sham for the simple minded unlearned fool that can't help but buy into it.
Robin

 

[VietnamEraVet]

The first slaves brought to America were IRISH. Well before Africans were brought here.

Why is it that we never hear about Irish American people demanding reparations ? Is it just a different mindset ? Or maybe it's that "white privilege" I keep hearing about - even though they were slaves, they are white, so they recovered all on their own.

My dad’s mom, came to America as an indentured servant,- from Ireland. You don’t see me pissing and moaning about it and crying for reparations…

All this reparation grift shit reminds me of a saying I heard:

“I never owned any slaves,- and you were never forced to pick any cotton”. Case closed.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

This is not a matter of inherited criminal liability. It's a question of unresolved institutional liability and intergenerational economic consequence.

Reparations arguments generally are not saying “you are guilty for what your ancestors did.” They are saying that current U.S. society is historically continuous with systems that produced lineage-specific intergenerational effects, and that those effects justify lineage-conscious remedies.

Whether someone’s ancestors fought for the Union is morally relevant historically, but doesn't erase the existence of the underlying institutional systems or their downstream consequences.

At what point are people responsible for their own outcomes and life situations?