Poll: Do you support slavery reparations?

[Celticguy]

So every promise that was ever broken in the history of mankind suddenly now has to be rectified specifically by illegally targeting white people and robbing them blind?

If the one who was injured lives, why not make it right ?

[Celticguy]

40 acres and a mule.

My mistake, 40 it is.

[Guno צְבִי]

General Sherman had no authority to promise the land (the mule was added later).

General Sherman should have been left to finished what he started and burn all the southern crackas out

[artichoke]

Reparations are not giving a condo and an SUV to descendants of slaves. There is a long list of proposals.
Blacks have not had equal opportunity and their schools have been neglected.

So take their pound of flesh from the DEMOCRATS who vote to keep them trapped in failing government schools at every turn.

There was lynching going on until the 1960s.

And there are hundreds of examples of Democrat political violence going on RIGHT NOW. So according to your logic, all liberals should now have to pay conservatives.

The voter's rights act came in 1965. It is not like blacks were treated fairly after the Civil War and slavery ended.

And? Lots of people in the past were been treated unfairly from all walks of life in every corner of the world. Life is unfair. Doesn't entitle other people to anything. The solution is to stop being a crybaby, grow up, and take responsibility for your own station in life.

They still are not treated equally, either by racists or the system.

Correct. They are given jobs and educational opportunities that white people are more qualified for, contracts that white people earned, etc. They are ALREADY given blatantly racist (and illegal) preferential treatment at everyone else's expense at every turn. And it "heals" nothing. It only makes them more bitter, resentful, and entitled.

Next BS fallacy please.

[artichoke]

If the one who was injured lives, why not make it right ?

By punishing other people who had no hand in it just for LOOKING LIKE other people who did the injuring? Blatantly stupid logic...and unconstitutional. And no, blacks are not still experiencing this injury, dishonest demagogue. They are already getting BEYOND equal treatment NOW, which is ALREADY completely immoral and racist. Cranking the discrimination up to 10 with slavery reparations is moving a hundred steps in the wrong direction. EQUALITY should be the goal, not vengeance...and equality happened a long time ago.

Republicans started out fighting to liberate blacks from Democrats, from the Civil War all the way up through segregation...and then stopped once equality was achieved. Democrats started out lynching and enslaving blacks, and now fight for racist preferential treatment on their behalf. There is literally no point in this country's history in which Democrats have ever once stood for actual equality...and no point at which Republicans HAVEN'T supported actual equality.

[artichoke]

General Sherman should have been left to finished what he started and burn all the southern crackas out

And you publicly admitting that you support Constitution-shredding war crimes, genocide, and racism is supposed to prove what exactly?

[artichoke]

And again I ask, if those of European dissent could argue that they might have theoretically been wealthier had Arabs/Muslims not spent hundreds of years raping, pillaging, and plundering the continent into ruin without provocation...then doesn't the left's logic here mean that they are owed money from Arabs/Muslims now, even though no one alive today was ever persecuted, conquered, or enslaved, and no Arab/Muslim alive today ever did anything like that to Europe (which isn't even entirely true...they ARE still actively enslaving people)?

[dukkha]

lol... how weird can the Dems get? no end in sight!

[artichoke]

lol... how weird can the Dems get? no end in sight!

"Weird" is overly generous. More like sleazy, immoral, and idiotic.

[canceled.2021.2]

It is stunning that candidates in the democrat party running for President think reparations is a winning issue for 2020

It’s like they don’t even want to win

[artichoke]

It is stunning that candidates in the democrat party running for President think reparations is a winning issue for 2020

It’s like they don’t even want to win

The victor chooses the battlefield and draws his enemy to it. There is no more favorable battlefield for this election to be situated on than this lunatic extremist issue.

[artichoke]

Side note: Democrat presidential candidates embracing this nut-job race hysteria further demonstrates my point that conservatives represent mainstream America, while Democrats represent only the lunatic fringe.

Surveys: Republicans more open-minded, better informed than Democrats

The Atlantic: The Most Politically Intolerant Americans Are Older White Liberal

It's Democrats, Not Republicans, Who Are The Extremists Today

A Pew Research Center report out last year, for example, showed that while the Republican views shifted slightly to the right from 1994 to 2017, Democrats had moved far to the left. Nearby is the table we ran when that report came out. A Gallup poll from 2015 pointed to the same trend. It found that Democrats had become far more liberal over the previous 15 years. Republicans hadn't changed in their views much. In fact, they had moved leftward on some social issues.

[Darth Omar]

And again I ask, if those of European dissent could argue that they might have theoretically been wealthier had Arabs/Muslims not spent hundreds of years raping, pillaging, and plundering the continent into ruin without provocation...then doesn't the left's logic here mean that they are owed money from Arabs/Muslims now, even though no one alive today was ever persecuted, conquered, or enslaved, and no Arab/Muslim alive today ever did anything like that to Europe (which isn't even entirely true...they ARE still actively enslaving people)?

And there’s that lol.

There’s not a person living that doesn’t have slaves/slave owners somewhere in their distant ancestry. And yes, it’s an inconvenient bit of history that the ‘brown skins’ raped, pillaged and enslaved who knows how many white Europeans for centuries before the first Crusade. So if you’re reading this and have European ancestry you have very distant relatives who were thrown into slave vessels and taken across the Mediterranean into North Africa or Saudi Arabia where they died miserable deaths or were forced into sex slavery by their Arab masters.

The Romans were big slavers too. It goes on and on. Slavery is an ancient evil but in this country, a war was fought, by white people, to free the black slaves.

‘Reparations’ was paid with the blood of white Union soldiers. How about we not spit on their graves? Reparations is a bad idea that only gets worse the more you look at it.

[StoneByStone]

The Constitution-shredding left now stands for:

-infanticide,
-gender lunacy,
-rigged elections,
-censorship & mob violence,
-scaremongering climate demagoguery,
-enabling opioid epidemics, child sex slavery, & border anarchy,
-giving voting rights to terrorists, felons, & illegal immigrants,
-illegal spying, witch hunts, & treason,
-and the persecution and eradication of all things white, male, Christian, & American

[RB 60]

Obviously, you can't deny any of it.