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2019-10-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-03 01:38|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 My own modest proposal as regards for reparations for slavery in the US, as I posted on Chicagoboyz some months ago -

"I put forth a modest counter-proposal, acknowledging that yes, IF there should be reparations paid in this day for the institution of chattel slavery, for the malignant practices of the Jim Crow laws, and local law-enforced racial segregation, and the depredations of the KKK, which cruelly impacted Black Americans, such reparations ought to and should be paid by the Democrat Party."

Posted by Celia Hayes 2019-10-03 07:25|| 2019-10-03 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Reparations should only be paid by slave owners, and only to people who were slaves.
Race-based reparations would mean people like Obama, who had no slave ancestry but did (I think) have slave-owner ancestry would be getting paid by descendants of the hundreds of thousands who died freeing the slaves.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-10-03 09:45|| 2019-10-03 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 One step above slavery in cultures based on feudal social structures is the role of serfdom. Generally tied to location and given obligations to work for their feudal lord, they gave a quarter to a third of their crops in taxation and survived on the balance. If you look at America’s social structure today and change the titles from Duke, Earl, Baron etc to the special roles we give celebrities, high visibility political figures and the ranks of the wealthy, the parallels are striking. Hereditary power, fame, special rules and accommodations, different justice systems, arrogance, elitism.... and above all, the looting of the public trust, treasury and tax farming the serfs. Sound familiar?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-10-03 12:18|| 2019-10-03 12:18|| Front Page Top

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