Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Jun 06 2025 02:49 pm
-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Arelor <=-
-=> Arelor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Ar> Well, for starters, any political program that talks about
Ar> "reparations" consisting in you having to pay a protected group for
Ar> something somebody else did to a third party 250 years ago. It is
Ar> virtually blaming you for things done by other person just because you
Ar> happen to be an evil white motherfucker who has to pay.
pF> That's a very reductive argument. There's been 250 years of systemic
pF> prejudice against a people that somehow needs to be remedied. The
pF> people who've lived under those conditions are the poorest, most
pF> incarcerated, least represented citizens.
pF> Our current administration is actively removing tributes to
pF> famous and successful African-Americans.
Haven't heard about this one. Any examples that you could provide?
Also, is this like the previous administration removing all kinds of
tributes/statues/memorials of famous and successful Southern-Americans
from the Civil War era, because of what they stood for? Oh, and also
like the renaming of military installations because they had
"offensive" names?
pF> I'm not claiming reparations are the solution I'd choose, but the
pF> problem persists.
What solution *would* you choose, pray tell? How, exactly, can this
problem be "fixed"?
... All the easy problems have been solved.
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