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The only thing AOC has done is pander for votes from social issue to social issue to boost her twitter feeds to become some sort of “faux social warrior for justice”.......nothing she does remotely resembles actual governing of a responsible elected official.
Seriously, learn how to read.
Where in my post that you quoted did I mention slavery? Where in either of the other two posts I have made on this subject did I mention slavery?
Here let me help you out:
I’m talking about responsibility (NOT blame, thank you) for our collective history.
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You are talking about money. I am not and I have in fact said so.
There are other ways to take reponsibility beyond admitting and apologizing — those are good first steps, however. It took the US 43 years to issue a formal apology for Japanese internment (interestingly, that came with financial reparations if I recall correctly).
It took well over 100 years for the US government to do the same for the Native Americans, though that one was a kind of backhanded offer. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-us-apo...ricans-3974561
Things like Affirmative Action — which I know is controversial and has an indirect economic component — are further measures devoted to (perhaps) imperfect ways to take responsibility.
I guess, maybe. Would have been a hard sell for my immigrant great-grand parents who immigrated between 1880 and 1930. Only one line of my family tree extends further back than that and they are Native American, so they go way back. I don’t want to discount the white privilege that they benefitted from, but these are reparations for slavery not privilege.
It's not about punishing a person... it's about punishing an institution. If somebody did nothing wrong at one of these banks that did all sorts of ****ed up **** wrong circa 2007... even if they were hired after, if that bank is punished (The institution) it might hurt an individual who did nothing wrong. But it's about institutional responsibility not personal responsibility.
I have no ****ing clue what to do about this ****. I'm guessing trying to stamp out institutionalized racism would be the best way to go... but most of the folks who need to hear that don't believe it.
Last edited by flips333; 04-07-2019 at 09:29 PM.
Originally Posted by MrPoon
I've heard that argument... the general counter is the slave trade did alot of damage to the social structure in general in Africa, and colonialism beat down the rest. So it's really a question of who do you want to be ****ed by.. Americans and Europeans or just Europeans.
Originally Posted by MrPoon
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