The New York City council just passed reparations legislation.
Do you think it is a good thing? Or do you think it is a racist money grab to make people who never owned slaves, never condoned slavery, pay money to people who were never slaves themselves, just because of the color of their skin? And do you think such legislation will stand up to the constitutional test of equal protection and treatment?
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Those who accept reparations are accepting the financial benefits of slave ownership how is this different than actual slave ownership? they are actively taking a financial reward as payment for their ancestors slavery.
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If reparations were truly deserved, then courts would have awarded them many decades ago. However, it is unjust to demand someone pay for something they did not do, to someone who wasn't even alive when it happened, over something that was deemed legal when it was occurring. Marxists like it because it is wealth redistribution, not because they think it will really change outcomes.
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