Curious to know what the social justice warriors around here think about this.
Who pays? And who gets paid?
And what happens after?
04-23-2019 06:53 PM
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ReparationsCurious to know what the social justice warriors around here think about this. |
04-23-2019 07:44 PM
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15th amendment was in 1870 | |
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04-23-2019 08:33 PM
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MMM, both individuals and groups are often held responsible for the actions of their forbearers. If you run up a bunch of debt, then croak, your heirs would be burdened with that debt up to the sum of assets which they stand to inherit. | |
04-23-2019 08:52 PM
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I think as a gesture of contrition reparations make sense in general. It's a formal way of acknowledging a country's wrongdoings and seeking forgiveness and making amends. It's good for the soul of the country. Both Whites and Blacks would be better for it. | |
04-23-2019 09:03 PM
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I haven't heard any specific proposals on how it would work, but I doubt any viable proposal would require calculations at the individual level. Nobody is getting a check. |
04-24-2019 12:56 PM
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Interesting. | |
04-24-2019 01:08 PM
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04-24-2019 02:58 PM
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04-24-2019 04:32 PM
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Why am I unemployed and lacking in opportunity? Maybe it's because I dicked about at school, spent my time at college drinking and smoking weed, and generally can't be fucking bothered. | |
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04-24-2019 04:38 PM
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There's a difference between having opportunities and not taking them and not having opportunities. | |
04-24-2019 04:50 PM
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04-24-2019 04:57 PM
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04-24-2019 05:01 PM
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The legacy of racism is strong in our culture. There's no denying it. A simple look at the recent census data for St Louis shows that white and black communities are very much still a thing. It's like half the city is one color, the other half the other color (red and blue on the census map, but whatever). | |
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04-24-2019 05:06 PM
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04-24-2019 05:14 PM
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What oppurtunity did I have that black kids didn't? | |
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04-24-2019 05:24 PM
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We were talking about black kids in America. | |
04-24-2019 05:31 PM
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Well I don't know about USA, I haven't been there. What I can say is that there are a great many successful black people in USA, some of whom come from broken families, or are war immigrants, perhaps have been to prison. That doesn't happen in a country where black people do not have equal opportunity. If you're smart enough and motivated enough, you can achieve your goals. | |
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04-24-2019 05:37 PM
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Succeeding despite disadvantages does not prove the disadvantages don't exist. Yes, some people can overcome the disadvantages but a lot of people can't. | |
04-24-2019 05:44 PM
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04-24-2019 05:48 PM
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In case that's too cryptic for you, people aren't disadvantaged because they are black. They are disadvantaged because they come from broken families, poor families, traumatic childhood experiences... it just happens to be the case this is more likely if you're black. That isn't racism, it's social inequality that can affect anyone of any colour. Including me, a white child from a poor family, my Mom and Dad split up when I was 4, I was dragged through foster homes and childrens homes. I was disadvantaged, despite being white. | |
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04-24-2019 07:55 PM
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04-24-2019 08:06 PM
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I think we need a different word for an oppressive dynamic involving black people. "Racism" just doesn't do it. Chinese people don't like Koreans. That's racism. Black people were owned for hundreds of years. Completely different animal. So using such a generic term just doesn't sit right with me. |
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04-24-2019 08:30 PM
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Probably. But it's not always that simple. Or the goal isn't that finite. |
04-25-2019 05:43 AM
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Talking about how some individuals either do/don't overcome obstacles to success is not really relevant when we are talking about population-level race issues. So, some advantaged kids fail and some disadvantaged kids succeed; also some advantaged kids are black and some disadvantaged kids are white. So what? The question is whether equal opportunities exist on a population level across races. If you believe they do, then there must be some other reason why whites as a group are better off than blacks. Once those reasons are identified they can be addressed. | |
04-25-2019 06:04 AM
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In the 1990's, an economic adviser to Bill Clinton named William Galston (google it) did a study. He also did the exact same study in 2007-ish, and got the exact same results. |
04-25-2019 06:05 AM
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04-25-2019 06:52 AM
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04-25-2019 07:07 AM
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04-25-2019 07:16 AM
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1. That isn't always true. | |
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04-25-2019 07:17 AM
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04-25-2019 07:19 AM
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04-25-2019 07:20 AM
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04-25-2019 07:26 AM
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04-25-2019 07:27 AM
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04-25-2019 07:29 AM
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Here's another population level effect: Native Americans have a lifetime 60% rate of alcohol dependency. | |
04-25-2019 07:30 AM
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04-25-2019 07:30 AM
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04-25-2019 07:32 AM
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04-25-2019 07:34 AM
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04-25-2019 07:35 AM
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04-25-2019 07:35 AM
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04-25-2019 07:36 AM
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04-25-2019 07:36 AM
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04-25-2019 07:36 AM
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04-25-2019 07:38 AM
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04-25-2019 07:38 AM
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Are you really trying to say drug addiction and alcoholism are not related? I am addicted to weed, and I started smoking it when I was 16, just as I left a children's home and became an adult in charge of my own destiny. | |
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04-25-2019 07:39 AM
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04-25-2019 07:44 AM
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WRONG |
04-25-2019 07:46 AM
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04-25-2019 07:48 AM
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04-25-2019 07:50 AM
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Will you agree now? | |
04-25-2019 07:51 AM
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Is this relevant? I chose to smoke weed, I chose to not give it up despite me being aware it was impacting negatively on my motivation and productivity. I'm not smoking weed as a 40 year old adult because I had a shit childhood. | |
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04-25-2019 07:53 AM
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04-25-2019 07:54 AM
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04-25-2019 07:58 AM
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04-25-2019 08:00 AM
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Are you going to genetically programme all the races to have equal IQ? | |
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04-25-2019 08:00 AM
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I'll say this... if a black criminal can demonstrate that he has been treated differently to a white criminal of equal status, then he/she deserves compensation from the state. | |
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04-25-2019 08:01 AM
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04-25-2019 08:11 AM
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I'm suggesting that to solve population-level problems (of which alcohol abuse in NAs is a solid example), you need to determine the root(s) of the problem. | |
04-25-2019 08:12 AM
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04-25-2019 08:14 AM
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It's not stupid to drink alcohol. If I thought that, I would be calling my own parents stupid. | |
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04-25-2019 08:15 AM
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04-25-2019 08:17 AM
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04-25-2019 08:19 AM
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No it's not trivial, if it's accurate it's certainly not an acceptable anomaly. So if America wants to get serious about equality, then striking off prejudiced judges would be a great place to start, rather than paying descendants of slaves money. | |
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04-25-2019 08:21 AM
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04-25-2019 08:21 AM
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04-25-2019 08:26 AM
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04-25-2019 08:28 AM
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First, it's still under debate, but population-level IQ is thought to be around 70-75% genetic and 25 to 30% environment. That still leaves a lot of room for society to have an effect. | |
04-25-2019 08:29 AM
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04-25-2019 08:32 AM
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So would I. I'm not much of a drinker, because it makes me feel like shit the next day. But if I just kept drinking regardless, my body would adjust. Or I'd die. Very probably the former. It makes me feel like shit because I'm not used to being drunk. That said, there are certainly alcoholic drinks I like enough that I could become an alcoholic if I tried hard enough. | |
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04-25-2019 08:34 AM
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04-25-2019 08:39 AM
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It's kind of a white person's game though isn't it? How many asian grandmasters have there been? | |
04-25-2019 08:42 AM
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04-25-2019 08:44 AM
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04-25-2019 08:45 AM
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