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Reparations should be taken from individual wrongdoers (or their estates) and given to their individual victims (or their estates)

Any group identity in such an operation is injustice, whether it's taking funds from the public generally via State apparatus, or selecting "victims" to reimburse based on skin tone

atyh 2y ago

I don’t think so.

This is another example of industry colluding with government to deprive individuals of just compensation for labor, of breaking contracts, and of later violating the constitution. There is no statute of limitations for these crimes.

In the same way that Native American nations should sue the federal government for treaty violations, there is a

strong argument for a class action suit against the federal government for slavery reparations.

Interestingly, Murray Rothbard made a strong argument along these lines 50 years ago.

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a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

The Federal government has no money of it's own, the only outcome of such a suit is to empower the State to more greatly rob perfectly innocent people to "pay back" the aggrieved party

atyh 2y ago

Interesting argument.

By this metric, the State (which is the problem) should be able to argue that it is never liable for any of its crimes since it "has no money of its own"

a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

There is no State - only individuals behaving in a certain way

Hold these men responsible for their own conduct