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>whatabout Make a compelling and valid claim that the US damaged you or stole from you and you may be entitled to collect payment for damages. US slave owners
by ashwagary 4y ago
>whatabout
Make a compelling and valid claim that the US damaged you or stole from you and you may be entitled to collect payment for damages.
US slave owners, Jewish holocaust survivors, and Japanese WWII internment camp victims were all paid reparations.
The story of the labor and opportunity stolen from the US black enslaved is clear and the reparations claim easy to validate, YMMV for the separate harder to prove whatabout claims you say exist.
- DougN7 4y agoSo I have to prove what was stolen from ME, but others have to prove what was stolen from people 2-8 generations back? Notice how your examples of reparations are to those who were directly harmed, which seems fair. Saying I owe someone for what our great-great-great-great-grandfathers did to their great-great-great-great-grandfathers?
- ashwagary 4y ago>So I have to prove what was stolen from ME The nitpick falls flat since brevity was the objective of my statement. "You and/or your ancestors" works. As long as the state that damaged your family still exists, a claim can be made. Yours is also a weak counter because the precedent is already set in similar cases. Many Jewish reparations recipients were never in concentration camps but their relatives and/or descendants could prove the damages.
- dcow 4y agoYou still haven't answered the question…