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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by dragonwriter on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:18PM (#18994042)
> But it doesn't really matter, as I said. Nobody who was around back then is still alive today.

Did the people that were alive then give back their ill-gotten gains to the exploited, or did they retain and pass on their advantaged position to their heirs who leveraged them for further gains?

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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:33PM (#18994757)
Neither. They got them bombed into rubble by the Allies.

Mind you, I'm not saying that they would have given their ill-gotten gains back to the exploited. I'm just saying what in fact happened.

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