(August 28, 2018 at 8:29 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(August 28, 2018 at 7:35 pm)Shell B Wrote: Reparations is actually a pretty long and well-adopted idea. It's not really just some corner of the Internet thing or something some nitwit said that the alt right picked up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery
You read the wiki you linked, I take it? One unsuccessful bill in centuries. One. Did it involve taking money from the white mans pocket and putting it into the black mans pocket? In a word, no. That we have to dig deep to find something even remotely salient should be telling, but it isn't..at least not to the alt right or those ailing from white anxiety. I find myself wondering what dystopian alternate reality they wake up in every day.
(August 28, 2018 at 7:33 pm)bennyboy Wrote: It seems to me that he's most likely an agnostic deist, rather than as a doctrinal Christian.
He's an atheist. He doesn't believe in gods, he believes that what gods represent is truer than true, realer than real..for Peterson Values™ of the terms "truth" and "real".
That there was a BILL introduced goes to show it's not nearly as unheard of as you think. You said some nitwit said it and the alt right picked it up from there. You were wrong. It's a well-developed concept with arguments for it existing in all levels of society, for lack of a better way of putting it. You seem to want to frame it as some ghost story benny made up, but that's just as disingenuous as his "lazy black guys are going to screw me and my business" fears. Both sides of this argument are being a mite ridiculous.
