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2019-09-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

Time to Set the Record Straight on Slavery

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-30 08:17|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Calls for reparations or whatever are always directed towards deep pockets. May we continue to have short arms.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-30 08:28|| 2019-09-30 08:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump should propose a bill/whatever in the UN saying that any member that tolerates slavery within their borders, as of 2020, will lose their UN seat.

It would be interesting to see how the votes fall.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-30 08:49|| 2019-09-30 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Income taxes are a form of slavery. Doesn't that basically rule out all of them?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-09-30 09:41|| 2019-09-30 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmm. Misread the headline: I thought it meant NYTimes to tell the truth for a change. Shudda known, like Tinsley:

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Posted by Mercutio 2019-09-30 11:22|| 2019-09-30 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, lets talk about this -

From bases on the Barbary coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids on seaside towns of Italy, Spain, France, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore in Ireland were abandoned following a raid, only being resettled many years later.

Barbary slave trade

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-30 11:42|| 2019-09-30 11:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's a deal: a one-time payment of $200k - pro-rated per amount of provable slave ancestry, e.g. Obama would get zilch, his wife the full $200k - in exchange for a complete, absolute, permanent end to any and and all racial preferences in hiring, government funding, and school admissions. Deal?

Posted by Lex 2019-09-30 11:58|| 2019-09-30 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Lex, that will never fly. I mean, they will happily accept the $200K, of course. But not the end of affirmative action, welfare payments, set asides, etc.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-09-30 13:25|| 2019-09-30 13:25|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 They would need to give up their citizenship and leave the country.

Otherwise, they'll just come back for more when the first round of gibs runs out.

Posted by charger 2019-09-30 18:26|| 2019-09-30 18:26|| Front Page Top

#9 You all are probably right.

The logic of reparations is Sharpton's: Heads I win, tails you lose, whites are eternally guilty -- regardless of when they arrived in the US, or whether they benefited from slavery or discrimination in any meaningful or demonstrable fashion, or whether they're even "white" at all.

Which means the Great Shakedown must never be allowed to end.

Posted by Lex 2019-09-30 19:24|| 2019-09-30 19:24|| Front Page Top

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