Re:Undoing the Alhambra Decree
by alistairSH on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:40AM
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Sounds like we mostly agree.
If reparations are direct transfer to hand-picked individuals (or groups thereof) and granted in a vacuum, that's bad policy.
If reparations are means-tested transfers to the neediest individuals (or groups thereof) and accompanied by meaningful changes to the rest of our social programs (including not just "welfare" but a whole host of other programs and systems), then that might be good policy.
Sort of a "5 Why's" for "why do certain minorities struggle with [system/policy]?" If the answer to the 5th Why was "slavery", that's solved. What's the 4th Why? Then the 3rd. And on. The generic discussion of reparations that we sometimes see in the news appears to be stuck on "slavery". Not always, but often.
If reparations are direct transfer to hand-picked individuals (or groups thereof) and granted in a vacuum, that's bad policy.
If reparations are means-tested transfers to the neediest individuals (or groups thereof) and accompanied by meaningful changes to the rest of our social programs (including not just "welfare" but a whole host of other programs and systems), then that might be good policy.
Sort of a "5 Why's" for "why do certain minorities struggle with [system/policy]?" If the answer to the 5th Why was "slavery", that's solved. What's the 4th Why? Then the 3rd. And on. The generic discussion of reparations that we sometimes see in the news appears to be stuck on "slavery". Not always, but often.