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Why are people who support the idea of reparations so woefully stupid and racist?

If you have a brain with at least 2 functioning brain cells understands that you can't give reparations to the living for the suffering of the dead.  More importantly, every living person has had ancestors that suffered oppression, basically meaning there wouldn't be anyone to pay the reparations when everyone is a "victim". 

"But what about American Indians"   progressives going on about how WRONG it was that their land was "STOLEN", oblivious about the fact that the Indian tribes that existed when Europeans arrived in North America, had wholesale slaughtered OTHER Indian tribes to take away their land and property."That doesn't make it right!!!" say the progressives. Actually, it was. The law of the land during the days before Europeans arrived was survival of the fittest. You keep what you take, that's just the way it was.

It is 2021 America, if you aren't succeeding in life, it is because of your own poor personal decisions, and nothing else.  The best thing we can do for so called "oppressed persons" (who aren't really oppressed, they are just making bad decisions) is to stop doing freebies and start expecting better personal conduct.  Hence why the idea of reparations is so terrible.

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  • 1 week ago
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    And then there is the practical side of determining just who is eligible.  Would you include people like Barack Obama and Kamela Harris who are not descendants of American slaves?  Would people be allowed to self identify as Black in order to qualify?  They need to think this all the way through.

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    1 week ago

    You've gotten the cart before the horse.

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  • 1 week ago

    Simple minded people tend to have abstract perceptions of the world, where everything can be easily categorized.

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