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The state of California is considering giving the descendants of slaves $1.2m each.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

....it should be traced back to who profited from the Slaves...

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The idea that the government, especially that of a country built on genocide and the backs of slaves (and kept their decedents segregated, marginalised, and persecuted for centuries after they were no longer seen as property), might somehow not be connected to, or profited from, never mind actively created the circumstances for and encouraged such events is the most ridiculous (or wilfully ignorant) thing I've read all week (and I've read about twitter DDoSing itself).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So let's make current wage slaves pay for it?

How is that justice? Or y'all just looking to milk these poor oppressed people to pay other poor oppressed people while people who profited keep their ill gotten gains...

Note how governments are all in debt, while daddy oligarchy is doing quite well...

Ain't it grand?