I'm half Irish, can I get reparations from the English? I guess the English half of me can pay it from the money I get from the Norman reparations.
Dr Johnson rumbles with the RawGod. And lives to regret it.
Quote: (06-04-2014 01:11 AM)darklightdispatch Wrote:
Multi-culturalism doesn't work or even make sense, really. A culture is defined as much by what it is not as what it is. You can't have a genuine multi-culture any more than you can have a multi-gendered person.
All the different European groups in the U.S. got along (eventually) because of relatively similar appearance, customs and traditions. I don't see the majority of black Americans wanting to become whites with dark skin, which is what the liberal plan essentially is (affirmative action, employment quotas.) Assimilating them into mainstream whiteness. Instead of government and academia trying to mush all the disparate groups in the U.S. into one big mess, we should let tribalism happen. Encourage as much group independence as possible.
With things the way they are now, the better-performing groups will always feel animosity towards having to support the less successful ones. And the less successful will always feel envious and hateful towards those they perceive as having more of the pie.
There's no way to ensure that everyone gets an equal outcome without total government intervention in every aspect of life (which would destroy productivity and, consequently, the flow money needed to keep the project going.)
I know it's not going to happen, but the best thing would be to let each group succeed or fail on its own merits. Fuck institutionalized togetherness. If that means breaking the country up into different ethnic states, I say go for it.
Quote: (06-04-2014 01:11 AM)RawGod Wrote:
I'm half Irish, can I get reparations from the English? I guess the English half of me can pay it from the money I get from the Norman reparations.
Quote: (06-04-2014 07:22 AM)InternationalPlayboy Wrote:
Back in the day it was irish, then italians, then asians, etc. Everyone assimilates at some point, generations down. Again, this is for legal immigration not including slavery / illegal border hopping from mexico.
Quote: (06-04-2014 11:23 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote:
I dont' understand what the basis for reparations are? Some explanation would be helpful. Indian reparations I get the basis for, settlers came in and took land, some of which was adopted through shady treaties or acts of the US government.
Why would americans have to pay reparations to slaves, or their decedents? The slave traders were the people doing the actual abducting in africa and then brokering the people here. The american's were just buying people being marketed to them as slaves, there weren't these southern gentleman lassoing people on the plains of africa to bring home to their plantations. Slave traders were the exploiters, slave buyers paid for the 'resource'
By the same logic you could argue that every consumer that has bought a 'blood diamond' or anything made in a sweatshop should be liable to the factory workers or child miners for reparations instead of the actual factory owner or mining operation owner.
Quote: (06-04-2014 10:49 AM)runsonmagic Wrote:
My ancestors came to America after the civil war and built your railroads.
Why should I have to pay for something even my grandfathers had no part in?