So I've been pondering this Georgetown reparations issue, and it's pretty absurd. My understanding is that the university sold some slaves for money back in the 19th century. There is a pitch for compensation for extremely distant descendants of those slaves. I think that's counterproductive and sets a terrible precedent, but ok, fair enough. So does the university write out a check to these descendants or something along those lines? No, it (with the consent of the dumbass students) imposes a dedicated fee on the students to compensate the descendents.
So in other words the reparations are being paid by people who had nothing to do with the slaves (some of whom are descendents of slaves themselves) while the institution that actually did have something to do with and even profited off the slaves gets off scott-free but gets to virtue signal about it as though they did some wonderful thing. If that doesn't epitomize phony left-wing justice, I'm not sure what would.
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Agree x 5
Last edited: Apr 14, 2019