>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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