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Is there a precedent for something like this? Genuinely curious if there are any examples for large scale reparations such as Jews post WW2 or Armenians post-g

Is there a precedent for something like this? Genuinely curious if there are any examples for large scale reparations such as Jews post WW2 or Armenians post-genocide or Cambodian people post-Khmer Rouge.

blamestross 4y ago
Israel exists?
subharmonicon 4y ago
Here’s one example: The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/820181127/the-unlikely-story-behind-japanese-americans-campaign-for-reparations https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/820181127... “… 40 years after the internment camps closed—President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which offered a formal apology and paid $20,000 to each survivor.”
- legostormtroopr 4y ago
  The key difference here, is that Japanese-Americans were imprisoned, and as such there were records about who, when, where and how long people were imprisoned. That makes reparations very easy - if you were imprisoned unfairly, you were entitled to payment.
  - wmf 4y ago
    I sense a market for DNA tests to prove that people are descended from slaves.
    - feet 4y ago
      Ooh I bet cops would pay so much money for access to that DNA database
  - eesmith 4y ago
    Where's the difference? As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391669 quoted from https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/HRC%20Reparations%202022%20Report%20Final_0.pdf https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/HRC%20Reparations... , the list of requirements for this proposed reparation depends on records. You can easily read "identified as ‘Black/African American’ on public documents", "proof of residency", "Record of attendance", and other things which require evidentiary records. Even "Descendant of someone enslaved through US chattel slavery before" requires records.
michpoch 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_... There’s still a significant number of claims from the Jewish communities.

blamestross 4y ago

Israel exists?

subharmonicon 4y ago

Here’s one example: The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/820181127/the-unlikely-story-behind-japanese-americans-campaign-for-reparations https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/820181127... “… 40 years after the internment camps closed—President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which offered a formal apology and paid $20,000 to each survivor.”

legostormtroopr 4y ago
The key difference here, is that Japanese-Americans were imprisoned, and as such there were records about who, when, where and how long people were imprisoned. That makes reparations very easy - if you were imprisoned unfairly, you were entitled to payment.
- wmf 4y ago
  I sense a market for DNA tests to prove that people are descended from slaves.
  - feet 4y ago
    Ooh I bet cops would pay so much money for access to that DNA database
- eesmith 4y ago
  Where's the difference? As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391669 quoted from https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/HRC%20Reparations%202022%20Report%20Final_0.pdf https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/HRC%20Reparations... , the list of requirements for this proposed reparation depends on records. You can easily read "identified as ‘Black/African American’ on public documents", "proof of residency", "Record of attendance", and other things which require evidentiary records. Even "Descendant of someone enslaved through US chattel slavery before" requires records.

michpoch 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_Israel_and_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_Agreement_between_... There’s still a significant number of claims from the Jewish communities.