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I'm more than happy to forgive black people for the sins of their parents once they no longer inherit from their parents businesses that get preferential treatm

• cma 3y ago
  > if you insist on punishing people of the present for the sins of the past. I think Germany's reparations for the Holocaust make sense, for instance.
  • dcow 3y ago
    Did German jews get a tax break? Or was the burden carried by all? Generally, I think the nuanced take is that nobody is saying they don't want to help right past wrongs if the effects are still present today. They’re saying that doing so on an artificial boundary of a protected class is toxic and backwards and does not positively contribute to the solution. What if we just invested more in poor and disparaged communities and added a 10% federal poor and disparaged communities tax. I don't see anything rhetorically sour about that (the number isn't the point). A burden shared by all to work towards a better world given to those communities with clear needs…