paying off ex-slaves

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Sun Mar 25 17:55:04 PST 2001


Justin Schwartz:
> ...
> The argument against a reparations campaign is that it looks like guilt trip
> and not a way to revitalize interracial cooperation for justice; it's
> divisive, zero sum, backwards looking rather than forwards looking, and
> doesn't address the current racial problems in a clear way. ...

It's not a guilt trip if it's simply a payment for an outstanding liability. And if so, it's not _supposed_ to revitalize interracial cooperation for justice, and so on, it's supposed to _pay_off_the_debt_, which is what just, right-thinking folks are supposed to do and want to do. Might as well put it up to all those just, right-thinking folks out there in unequivocal terms.

If you want to actually revitalize interracial cooperation for justice and address the current racial problems in a clear way, you'll probably have to become a anarcho-communist and destroy Western civilization. I think libcap has been taken about as far as it can go (hence the present rescissions).



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