The Case for Reparations

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Hornets have long and repeatable sesquipedalianisms and repeated "so-called" stingers. ;)

Trust me, a bee loses her stinger after one sting... I would prefer having to deal with a hive of bees or wasps than hornets.

And this one seems to be high in the tree, so why shake it?.
One could only hope our aggrieved posters had only one sting per poster.
 

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...What you want is merely to poke the hive and see how the bees react. You have nothing to offer to the discussion so you play your infintile games. It's your way of covering up for your lack of knowledge. Your innapropriate use of words is a classic symptom of this inadequacy...
(JGG; use of personal pronouns here? -- there are six of them. Mod consistency?)
 

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One could only hope our aggrieved posters had only one sting per poster.
I wouldn't be that hard on Jim or O'be. In between insults they've posted some pretty interesting things. We'll survive the stings.
 

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JGG; use of personal pronouns here? -- there are six of them. Mod consistency?
100% intentional. I believe jgg gave me a "like." (There are 2 more personal pronouns)
 

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No I don't. Everybody knows who JGG is. Quit being so German.
@byron ed doesn't show you name it gives you an alert (that's why it's called paging) - 'to quit being so german' is supossed to mean what exactly? besides that you confess to sporting prejudices, that is.
 

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I have all the TVs I want...
So an additional $8.55 a year in taxes for reparations isn't much of burden for you then. I can make it even easier: If universal slave reparations at a national level go into effect, I'll rebate your $8.55 personally.

Point is, compassion trumps fairness, if I have to say imho.

One would hope reparations would take the form of better enforcement of fair real estate practices, more transparent loan application process; more grants awarded for child care, college and minority-owned small business etc. but even if it's something silly like direct distributions to people of African-American heritage, more rather than less will benefit -- as would U.S. society in general.
 

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So, the ultimate Mod, meh. Get real.
actually a mod is the lowest of the low of what we have when it comes to staff. i could ban @Jim Klag (just need to check a box, you know) but i can't bann the boss - so there's a difference methinks.
 

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actually a mod is the lowest of the low of what we have when it comes to staff. i could ban @Jim Klag (just need to check a box, you know) but i can't bann the boss - so there's a difference methinks.
This is more of a commute without pretty women. I am the boss by virtue of being member #1. The benefit of installing the software.
 

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So an additional $8.55 a year in taxes for reparations isn't much of burden for you then. I can make it even easier: If universal slave reparations at a national level go into effect, I'll rebate your $8.55 personally.

Point is, compassion trumps fairness, if I have to say imho.

One would hope reparations would take the form of better enforcement of fair real estate practices, more transparent loan application process; more grants awarded for child care, college and minority-owned small business etc. but even if it's something silly like direct distributions to people of African-American heritage, more rather than less will benefit -- as would U.S. society in general.
One of the interesting things is that States that vote for an increased minimum wage benefit Hispanics and African Americans far more than whites, but they pass while affirmation actions to do the same thing fail. The way to pass reparations is based on all races, not one, but income-based. Results are about the same but more politically palatable.
 

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...actually a mod is the lowest of the low of what we have when it comes to staff. i could ban [Jim Klag] (just need to check a box, you know) but i can't bann the boss - so there's a difference methinks.
A difference of no difference. So let's not be kidding ourselves. JGG is moderador Grande', having unilaterally shut down threads several times.

Let's neither kid ourselves that there's not a moral imperative for slave restitution.

(wait, this guy just kind of slipped that one in...)
 
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...'to quit being so german' is supossed to mean what exactly? besides that you confess to sporting prejudices, that is.
I'll own it. In U.S. colloquial there is a long-standing prejudice, if flippant and undeserved, a common perception that Germans are precise and effective to a fault -- fortunately in engineering, unfortunately in politics, and famously with words.
 
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