What about the Arab slave traders, do they have to pay reparations?

@mikeflarkin 😞

No

Because skin color

is there a name for the "this problem is too big and complex to solve so we shouldn't even try to do anything about it" fallacy? I hear it a lot

They're also victims of institutionalized racism

it's possible to have an imperfect solution to a real problem and still have that be just

the thing is, I'm not arguing against not solving it, only that "reparations" are not a solution

Is there a name for the "This "Problem" isn't the real problem shut up about it"

you mean like when you talk about climate change and people are like "psh, but what about starving children"

Reparations can't solve their problems since it isn't the solution

some people still own the wealth that was the proceeds of slavery

including many africans...

should they then make reparations for selling them into slavery?

that's up to Africa to figure out I guess

Meh

Everything is white people's fault

I don't agree with that at all

I just happen to be in favour of reparations

I mean, sure, I could get a job, make my own money, grow my own food, pay my own bills...

But white people are white

you could set a class of person where you have to demonstrate slavery in your history, which isn't an impossible feat by any means

Therefore, gimme gimme gimme

I really just don't see the point in reparations, Nobody alive today was a slave back then and even then a very small percentage of people owned slaves to begin with

Why the hell do white people still dare to be white? Haven't they learned anything from the past few years?

the idea that all wealth is the result of personal hard work is one of the great lies of our time

you know there are people who don't work at all who are wealthy

there's such a thing as corporate welfare

Yes

Yasssss

there are also people who work two jobs and still can't make ends meet

Slay kwueen

And if taxes are going to reparations where's the reparations for people whos taxes are being unfairly used to pay reparations for something they were never involved in

corporate welfare should be abolished

There's so many reasons I give no shits

and so should the patent system

@🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞 would you give a shit for a dollar?

I didn't say taxes should fund reparations, necessarily. ideally you would try to trace the wealth that is rooted in slavery and find a way of recouping it. kind of like lifting the statue of limitations on a certain class of lawsuit

That's like punishing someone for being born

Are you sure you want to do that?

so what would you call being born wealthy? being rewarded for being born?