Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review an IPA from Three Floyds, then discuss whether the United States should pay reparations for the evils of slavery.
P&C agree that the concept of reparations is sound. When you harm someone, you should try to repair the wrong that’s been done.
They review some of the arguments for reparations, and have sympathy for many of them.
The idea is not simply that the ancestors of slave owners should pay the ancestors of slaves, but that the entire system was complicit in slavery, so the entire system should pay.
But who should be paid, and how much? What’s the limiting principle? Should we also pay Native Americans, or the Chinese, who were abused in the creation of the railroads?
Can a group be held responsible for the actions of a group at some time in the past?
It’s almost impossible to parse it all out and unscramble the mess. Isn’t there a statute of limitations?
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