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SF Approves Reparations Ordinance, Providing Race-Based Education Benefits
- zug_zug 8mo agoThis is the type of thing that sends certain people emotionally of the rails, but I suppose I can't say a city shouldn't do whatever they think is right just because some bad-faith actors will try to use it as a rallying-cry.
- 0xy 8mo agoCalifornia never had slavery. Reparations for what?
- kelseyfrog 8mo agoTo be purposely pedantic, it did. It was however mainly the Spanish mission system[1] who enslaved indigenous people. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Californ...
- zug_zug 8mo agoI never said the word reparations… just that it’s a topic that makes a certain group really emotional
- Gibbon1 8mo agoBefore red lining San Francisco's zoning laws restricted what neighborhoods black people (and Asians and Hispanics) were allowed to live.
- armchairhacker 8mo agoWould you also accept a city providing benefits to only white residents? You could provide benefits on a criteria like poverty, which is intrinsically race-blind and agreeable but happens to include a higher ratio of black people. Like you could provide a scholarship based on test scores, which is intrinsically race-blind but happens to include more Asians. But this is objectively racist, and I believe unlikely to benefit even black people in the long run due to the underlying message.
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