Angry protesters in Cape Town have confronted the king and queen of the Netherlands as they visited a museum that traces part of their country's 150-year involvement in slavery in South Africa.
Again with the guilt! This is a strawman. Can someone else tap in? I’m done for now.
Pug, if you’re really looking for answers, consider removing your moral glasses and just look at what people have had taken from them and what they’re asking for. Beyond all the emotion and defensiveness and outrage and morality, people are asking for really reasonable things
I find it absurd that you say that, considering that I have explicitly stated that I’m not against people asking for ‘really reasonable things’.
Insofar as Pierre has a higher standard of living and should assist others to reach his living status, I believe it is appropriate to demand money with that goal in mind. Insofar as the idea that Pierre, born in 1990 and who has never left his little corner of the country, has some form of ancestral debt to be paid, I believe it is inappropriate.
In other words, I think you are (broadly speaking) right, but for the wrong reasons.
You’re refusing to examine your own position when it is questioned, conflating opposition with your principle with opposition to your solution, despite the fact that it is the principle being questioned (the passing of guilt down through generations), not the solution (redistribution of wealth).
Again with the guilt! This is a strawman. Can someone else tap in? I’m done for now.
Pug, if you’re really looking for answers, consider removing your moral glasses and just look at what people have had taken from them and what they’re asking for. Beyond all the emotion and defensiveness and outrage and morality, people are asking for really reasonable things
I find it absurd that you say that, considering that I have explicitly stated that I’m not against people asking for ‘really reasonable things’.
You’re refusing to examine your own position when it is questioned, conflating opposition with your principle with opposition to your solution, despite the fact that it is the principle being questioned (the passing of guilt down through generations), not the solution (redistribution of wealth).