Americans wanting to look at our history, atone for past mistakes and make things right in the present is not a bad thing; it’s a good and healthy thing. Revisionists like Hawley represent the interests of those who would perpetuate our biggest mistakes.
The Recount
 @therecount
22 Jun 2021
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO): “I’m worried that President Biden is nominating for federal office individuals ... who believe that this is a country founded in racism ...”
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'atone for past mistakes'? Do you think individuals in particular groups should be held morally culpable for things done by other unrelated members of their group before they were born? Serious question.
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Morally culpable is different than financially accountable. Descended from Jewish Russian immigrants who came here to escape pogroms, I’m not morally culpable for slavery. But as a citizen of the US I’m responsible for America doing the right thing now - so I support reparations.

Jun 23, 2021 · 3:45 PM UTC

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I think saying sorry to slaves by giving them repairations is like saying sorry to Indians by giving them their land back. Why don't we do that too?
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Why not make reparations voluntary for those that feel they have financial restitution to make?
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'Reparations' boils down to government using its coercive power to take huge amounts of money from some people just because of their ethnicity & alleged ancestral guilt. Just like Nazis did to the Jews. That's not 'the right thing' to do. That's explicit, coercive racism.
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Yeah well you probably owe a fat stack to the serfs so whip out that checkbook. Igor wants some new adidas
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Obviously you are also not financially accountable. You are free to give donations to whomever you please however.
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Absolutely get fucked. You descended from the jews who initiated the bolshevik revolution and destroyed Russia and instigated WW2 and then fled once people had enough of your shit and now you're trying the same thing here.