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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of liberals giving MAGA vibes in this thread. Hypocrites! 
All this whataboutism for other groups of people.  Newsflash! Slaves didn't volunteer for the all expense paid one way trip across the Atlantic.  If you feel so strongly about other groups, then feel free to file a petition for reparations on their behalf.  Nothing is stopping you from doing that. [/quote]

NObody should be getting any reparations for any injustices done to their ancestors from  other people's ancestors.  Reparations are paid to those still alive for the wrongs done to them to ruin their lives.  What coulda woulda is hard to quantify.  There is literally zero proof that every single black family would have been super affluent had there not been Slavery and Jim Crow.  If this were true, then ALL the whites would have been rich now, but tons of them are dirt poor.   It's like a wrongful death lawsuit where underwriters are trying to quantify how much someone's life is worth and extrapolating how much they would have earned had they stayed alive.  Doing this exercise for a large group of unrelated people is simply moot.  [/quote]

And why should people who weren't the ones to commit the injustices have to pay for the injustices committed by others?[/quote]

I am with you on this, but if there is a severe injustice committed against a certain group of people there is a case for reparations for the survivors of that injustice who are alive and directly experienced it, had been put through pain, lost their health, etc.  We paid reparations to Japanese Americans who were sent to the internment camps.  Germany paid reparations to the Holocaust survivors who were imprisoned in its death camps.  Was it fair to require American and German taxpayers that didn't directly commit the injustices and may even have been against it to foot the bill?

I am definitely baffled by the idea of reparations to the descendants, it makes no sense as it assumes that descendants have shared the same degree of pain, persecution, oppression. Paying it to the descendants is not just illogical but also unethical and maybe simply impossible to implement. [/quote]

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