Comment on How are slavery reparations fair?
JdW@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are definately not fair. But fair is not an economic or political quantifyable term. Slavery wasn’t fair either.
What is just or not changes with times and societies. If there is political capital to be made by making reparations then they make sense. If the poblic disagrees they can and will vote out those responsible. For better or for worse that’s our system.
But I personally do not feel there’s such a thing as Sins of the Fathers. I have nothing to do with the slavers of 300 years ago, the whole concept of owning a human being is repugnant to me. And I genuinly feel that should be enough.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
I tend to agree about the Sins of the Fathers, but at the same time, if you don’t inherit their sins why do you inherit their stolen boons?
But ultimately, the time to address these evils was a century ago. In the now, as a society we should indeed strive to lift up the impoverished. All of the impoverished.