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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @premitive1 3 Sep \ parent \ on: Reparations for black people: yes or nay? news
wasn't slavery...also extortion?
no
Extortion is the unlawful act of obtaining money, property, or services from another person through the use of force, threats, or coercion. It involves an illegitimate demand or request made by one party to another, often accompanied by a credible threat of harm, injury, or damage to the victim’s person, property, or reputation.
Slavery was lawful before 1865.
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How would reparations necessarily be unlawful? If it's a law, that would make the act lawful, wouldn't it? Just like slavery itself before 186t?
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Because you are forcing non slave owners to pay non slaves
There is zero moral justification for reparations. It’s simply extortion. I refuse to accept the premise that reparations are due. Agreeing to any plan, e.g., that Democrats would be the ones to pay, implicitly accepts that reparations are just. Such acceptance would undermine any moral foundation for the country’s legal system, which has already been significantly debased.
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Justice is irrelevant to this discussion so far. If the country passes a law to compensate descendants of slaves, the act of using public money to pay that compensation would be legal, and therefore not extortion. The same as slavery, having been legal, was not extortion.
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But before the country passes any laws legalizing reparations, demand for reparations is extortion
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A demand is just an argument. That is not extortion.
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