0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve OP 3 Sep \ parent \ on: Reparations for black people: yes or nay? news
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.
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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