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Do you have evidence on scholarships being given solely on race and gender?

Reparations is a tricky one, I could argue both sides.

There's no argument for reparations. Any amount of money would be symbolic and arbitrary and ineffective at making a true financial difference.

In the short term maybe some people can have some money but when you give people money they didn't earn they never keep it. There's been research studies on that.

It's an empty gesture. It's based on the false premise that America is unique somehow in having fought people for land or having had enslaved people. No one born in America that's alive today has done either.

I have no doubt that it would turn into some out of control spending spree where people receiving money would keep demanding more. Bc that's how people are when they get it.

And I would ask how much money would it take to balance these things out? How much to make past slavery ok? How much to pay for the damages of the trail of tears? Of course the answer is that there's no amount. Which then begs the question what's it for in the first place?

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BlueDuckBTC 3mo ago

The argument was as you stated towards the end, there is logic and reason behind reparations…yes, still a debate on effectiveness and subjectivity of value loss.

GreyHood 3mo ago

I’d rather distribute reparations to the deserving or even better UBI across the board than cut taxes for the wealthy or bail out corporations that lobby for handouts. And of course working people are going to spend the money that they are allocated. They must in order to survive. No need for a “study”. Also no need for a study to know that the trillions we gave rich folks stayed in their pocket too. They didn’t need it but they use it to acquire capital and rent it back to us.