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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by rayiner on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:44PM (#36529907)
Lots of people also say that from the not-advantaged side. Most Indians aren’t sitting around insisting on reparations for the $41 trillion Britain took from them. They understand that it’s futile to do so, and making that the goal will only leave them in poverty long term.
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by shadowgovt on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:23PM (#36530154)
FWIW, when reparations are discussed, it is usually a reference to the fact that after the civil War, the government somehow found a way to scrape down in its pockets and compensate the slave owners for their "loss of property."

One can I think reasonably ask how this government was able to find the resources to pay people for losing their slaves and not the resources to compensate slaves for the years of freedom stolen. Although it is almost certainly too late to reconcile that particular wrong directly as those slaves are now all dead.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by chii on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:54AM (#36531034)
Perhaps the payments were to appease the powerful slave owners so that another civil war does not happen. It was not done for some sort of moral duty or obligation.

The slaves had no power, and this would not pose threat of civil unrest.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by shadowgovt on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:42AM (#36533170)
This is a train of thought that appears to pull into the station of using civil unrest to balance the scales.

Interesting, and worth considering the next time there's a riot.

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