A completely nonsensical scenario, with no evidence to support claims. "All I [Emily Lake] can think of" is not tangible evidence of whatever conspiracy theory comes into your head.
I'm sorry but that is just irrational.
For what PURPOSE? Why is this something that there is any need to make public in the first place?
It's a stupid law that serves only to increase racial conflict and tension. And don't be daft - use your brain and think about what the OUTCOME of this is going to be. Because it sure as fuck isn't going to be a bunch of people saying "oh, well, that's fine, no biggie". Don't pretend there's not a bigger political goal to this.
Bullshit. If you think that won't happen, then you have your head in the sand. It's an easily foreseeable and extremely likely outcome. I would even go so far as to say it's the DESIRED outcome.
It's perfectly rational.
No one needs a reason not to censor information, especially not information about a particularly consequential period of national history.
If you had evidence, you'd be citing it.
It's not being censored right now. Instead, companies are being forced to go back more than 150 years and make public things that have no bearing on their current operations.
It's like you don't know how words work.
No, because most people are unaware that this law even exists, and they certainly won't be reading the hundreds of reports it generates.
Hm. So you aren't arguing that these companies don't have ties to slavery. You are arguing thay they do, but we should help them cover up that connection, because you are afraid there will be a "riot" if people find out about it? Do you mean a real riot, with burning cars and so forth, or just a metaphorical riot, like the Beave's imaginary "pitchforks and torches"?
I know exactly how words work. Probability is a science. Your horror scenarios are nonsensical bullshit you made up of the top of your head, but want us to use as the basis of law. Your hypotheticals "feel likely" to you, but you can give no one else any reason to think they are actually likely.
You're never gonna cool off from the P & T, thing are you?
Not equivalent. A corporation I am not, nor do I have any sealed files that I'm hiding from the public about my geneaology. But if a student asked me about that, I would answer them seriously and honestly, not rail at them insanely about how they were trying to start a "race riot" by asking. I would assume that they had their reasons for wanting to know, and as a public employee I generally try to be as transparent as I can be about who I am and where I'm from and so forth.
Again, these aren't actually equivalent situations. But if that happened, I would not be trying to censor the speech of any student, even if they are using that voice in a way that's painful to me also. Presumably, they are also coming from a place of pain, and it isn't my job to police my students, their emotions, or their public expressions.
That might be worse. So now companies have to make public that 150 years ago someone else associated with the company made money off of it, and the public now receiving this information doesn’t know their being forced to do so. Hmm, what could possibly go wrong.
It doesn’t fucking matter if someone else more than five generations ago did something bad. It’s not “covering it up”. This is digging up dirt that is u related to ANYONE ALIVE TODAY for political posturing and to stir racial tension.
What the fuck do you think the outcome of this will be? What benefit is there to the public? Or do you only care about how much political use progressives can make by increasing division?