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Not surprising. The US has not paid reparations to most of the people it has wronged.
by femiagbabiaka 4y ago
Not surprising. The US has not paid reparations to most of the people it has wronged.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoAmazing what sort of atrocities people will commit when fear and emergencies are invoked.
- asdff 4y agoYou don't have to invoke all of that to commit atrocities, just appeals to convenience work well enough to convince someone to forsake the rights of another person. Settlement of this country should have never happened, this is all stolen indigenous land whose conquest was legally justified by the handwaving of a patriarch of a religion hundreds of years ago. White settlers at the time saw native peoples as a pest much like a coyote is a pest to livestock, and much like coyotes they were allowed to kill off these people pretty matter of factly without recourse. There was no fear or emergency justifying that action, only that the white person would like to make profit grazing their cattle in the buffalo country on land that was offered to them by their government for next to nothing.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoThat’s true. We did see that in recent years with people even such as Noam Chomsky arguing for ostracizing undesirables and withholding food from them.
- andrekandre 4y ago> even such as Noam Chomsky arguing for ostracizing undesirables and withholding food from them. wow, when was this?!
- coldacid 4y agohttps://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-unvaccinated-should-just-remove-themselves-from-society https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-un...
- andrekandre 4y ago> Speaking on YouTube’s Primo Radical on Oct. 24, Chomsky said that for the unvaccinated people who are segregated from society, how they obtain groceries should be left up to them. “How can we get food to them?” asked Chomsky. “Well, that’s actually their problem.” hmm... while a bit harsh, im not sure that files under "withholding food" from the unvaccinated...
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoI think that’s exactly what he was saying.
- asdff 4y agoHe's really saying that these people made their bed and are forced to sleep in it, and they can't expect society to go out of its way to accommodate their disregard for society in general.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoNo, he said they should be ostracized and removed from society and food is then their own problem. The force of violent coercion is implied and quite obvious.
- rayiner 4y agoHas anybody ever paid reparations to anybody? Inter-Generational debt just isn’t a thing.
- skyyler 4y agoThis kind of stuff can easily be searched for. Here's a low-mid quality article: https://www.vox.com/2014/5/23/5741352/six-times-victims-have-received-reparations-including-four-in-the-us https://www.vox.com/2014/5/23/5741352/six-times-victims-have...
- akavi 4y agoAll but the last of those examples only paid out to the living survivors of the atrocity, and the last only earmarked 5% for descendants. So it does seem that inter-generational reparations are indeed very rare.
- skyyler 4y ago>$10 million out of court settlement with the victims and their families >$2.4 million today would be set aside to compensate the 11 or so remaining survivors of the incident, $800,000 to compensate those who were forced to flee the town, and $160,000 would go to college scholarships primarily aimed at descendants. Inter-generational reparations exist explicitly in two of the six examples in that article. Japanese interns that didn't collect their payment from the US left it up to their heirs to collect it, so I'll even add that as a technicality of inter-generational reparations. Also I'm rather sure Israel is still getting payments for what happened in the 1940s... But I could be wrong there. Inter-generational reparations are indeed rare if you don't look very hard for examples of it happening.
- rayiner 4y agoNow compare that to all the instances where people committed atrocities against other people. It seems like you’re talking about something vanishingly rare.
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