Why are you so dedicated to defending a policy that transparently increases racial tension. I’m curious how you - a white progressive - benefits from this.
Because a privately funded billboard doesn’t increase the likelihood of a progressive government being given license to confiscate corporate revenue to enrich and entrench their party.
More conspiracy crap, then. Also, what fucking "progressive government"? The closest thing we have ever had to a "progressive government" was successfully ripped to shreds by a rising military industrial complex during the second world war.
That speaks volumes as to how you see the world. A race traitor, am I now? Fuck your Nazi bullshit to the lowest circle of hell.
You're pretending that historical transparency is "inciting a race war", but you're the only one fantasizing about a race war. No one wants that. No one has called for anything of the sort.
What the fuck is wrong with you? White people using black people for political gain doesn’t meet any rational definition of “race traitor”.
Well gee, if you’re out for “historical transparency”, why stop at 150 some years ago? Surely “historical transparency” should include profiting from religious persecution, sexism, discrimination against the Irish, or any other thing that used to be legal and no longer is.
You said it. Apparently you cannot even imagine doing the right thing for its own sake, rather than for a "benefit" to your stupid fucking race.
There’s no cover up, and no suppression. What you’re supporting is a concerted initiative to dig up dirt from over five generations ago, which nobody alive today had any involvement in, and which was legal at the time. It’s not legal now, and I completely agree that it should be. But the fact remains that it was legal and accepted at the time.
I'm pretty sure that what this is about is laying the groundwork for the gigantic theft referred to as "reparations".
Yep. It’s pretty much the only intention that makes sense.
You keep saying things that reveal far more than you realize about how you see the world, and what you consider important or unimportant.
If you think there will ever be a successful reparations bill for American slavery that forces white individuals to pay money to black individuals, you are hopelessly naive and easily manipulated.
No, chiding other people for supporting a measure that doesn't benefit your partially shared "race", or asserting that it is wrong to criticize racist acts if those acts were "legal and accepted at the time", makes you a post author who advanced a racist nazi argument. I have no idea who you are, you could be some 15 year old kid in his mother's basement typing random crap on an internet forum for the lulz, for all I know. All I can respond to is what you've typed. I don't know or care who you are.
Drop the bullshit. It used to be legal, that isn’t in dispute. It also used to legal to beat the crap out of your wife, hunt endangered animals, and imprison people for being gay. I don’t think those are unimportant by any means, but I do understand that social mores and beliefs change over time.
Everything you’ve typed here is a baseless accusation based in your imagination. You have no logical argument or reasonable discourse. All you have are insults.
Well aware. I know some of the people who have done research for that task force, in fact. But it's not actually going to happen. Even most of the people involved are well aware that any intiative for a direct payment will end eventually with a governor's veto, if it even gets that far. And your "nightmare scenario" of individual whites paying individual blacks reparations, as opposed to the government as a whole paying reparations to citizens who have been harmed by it, is nothing but a fantasy on your part. It has never been proposed.California Reparations Task Force - Wikipedia
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Are you naive, or a propagandist, Poli? Or are you merely ignorant of what’s going on in CA?
ETA, this bill requiring disclosure of info from over150 years ago, in a state that never allowed slavery in the first place, is a direct result of the reparations task force. It’s 100% a step toward a monetary transfer.
Using black people as poltical pawns to - do what? You yourself admitted that a middle-class "white" guy is unlikely to benefit in any way from this law's passage. You're weeping tears of blood because you don't want another state to enact a law that makes you feel bad. That's fucking selfish, it's not "inclusive" or "tolerant", and it certainly doesn't lend itself to "diversity", whatever that is supposed to mean. We have a diverse population here no matter what laws get passed, that's just a fact.
I agree. So does everyone else. That's only happened in your tortured fantasies, not in real life. No one is getting arrested for crimes they did not commit, and if they were so arrested, the court system would correctly rule that detention improper and illegal. You're so far out in La-La Land you've lost all perspective on how American law even works.