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Topic	Bill Maher on "white shame"
ZMythos 09/28/19 7:52:58 PM #28:	pls posted... It's a simple yes or no question. Will people who didn't own slaves have to pay higher taxes in order to pay reparations? How much in reparations? And how would you deal with em-privileging millions of people via giant cash infusions? Would you raise taxes on them? For example, will the reparations be $50,000 per person? $100,000? If I knew how it would be accomplished then I wouldn't be here, I'd be on Capitol Hill. So you answered for me if it's a loaded question. pls posted... That kind of cash would create a new class of people with an immense head start in life. Wow it's almost like being white right now. pls posted... So how do you prevent it from being unfair to the tens of millions of whites who are poor? How do you prevent slavery from being unfair to the millions of people who were subjected to it? Or their second-class status throughout the Reconstruction era and into the late 60s? Or the mass incarceration of nonwhites for nonviolent offences? You don't. Plain and simple. pls posted... Or the tens of millions of eastern European and Irish who in the last 70-100 years were discriminated against, not considered white, prevented from accessing good schools and good neighborhoods, due to the perception of overimmigration? Are they asking for them? If they believe they're entitled to it then they should build a case for it and advocate for it just as much as black americans have. pls posted... It really seems like reparations is not a simple issue and the time for a cash infusion to slavery victims has long since passed. Imo a better approach would be good universal programs like Medicare For All, a jobs guarantee where you can work a great job in the renewables sector after we pass a Green New Deal, and a funded Social Security retirement, etc. So we just shrug our shoulders and say there's nothing we can do after we've done nothing to address it in the first place? And hope that over the next decade we will pass social legislation that will take even longer before its effects on the lowest classes can even be measured? Those whom society has rejected for the past century aren't looking for a long term solution. They're looking for relief. Because that's what's current to their survival. --- Rainbow Dashing: "it's just star wars" AutumnEspirit: kissu <cite>ZMythos posted [p:928077362] in Bill Maher... [t:78048774]...</cite> <quote>pls posted...</cite> <quote>It's a simple yes or no question. Will people who didn't own slaves have to pay higher taxes in order to pay reparations? How much in reparations? And how would you deal with em-privileging millions of people via giant cash infusions? Would you raise taxes on them? For example, will the reparations be $50,000 per person? $100,000? </quote> If I knew how it would be accomplished then I wouldn't be here, I'd be on Capitol Hill. So you answered for me if it's a loaded question. pls posted...</cite> <quote>That kind of cash would create a new class of people with an immense head start in life.</quote> Wow it's almost like being white right now. pls posted...</cite> <quote>So how do you prevent it from being unfair to the tens of millions of whites who are poor?</quote> How do you prevent slavery from being unfair to the millions of people who were subjected to it? Or their second-class status throughout the Reconstruction era and into the late 60s? Or the mass incarceration of nonwhites for nonviolent offences? You don't. Plain and simple. pls posted...</cite> <quote>Or the tens of millions of eastern European and Irish who in the last 70-100 years were discriminated against, not considered white, prevented from accessing good schools and good neighborhoods, due to the perception of overimmigration? </quote> Are they asking for them? If they believe they're entitled to it then they should build a case for it and advocate for it just as much as black americans have. pls posted...</cite> <quote>It really seems like reparations is not a simple issue and the time for a cash infusion to slavery victims has long since passed. Imo a better approach would be good universal programs like Medicare For All, a jobs guarantee where you can work a great job in the renewables sector after we pass a Green New Deal, and a funded Social Security retirement, etc.</quote> So we just shrug our shoulders and say there's nothing we can do after we've done nothing to address it in the first place? And hope that over the next decade we will pass social legislation that will take even longer before its effects on the lowest classes can even be measured? Those whom society has rejected for the past century aren't looking for a long term solution. They're looking for relief. Because that's what's current to their survival. --- Rainbow Dashing: "it's just star wars" AutumnEspirit: kissu</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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