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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel

Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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Huh, must be April Fools day? As soon as you head down this road, you have to make the same judgement for every group ever oppressed, which means you have Native Americans, Filipinos (yes we did some bad things there in the 20's), Irish, Italians, etc. What about the British? We beat them up a couple of times, and took their colonies away... Come to think of that, then every colonial country (80% of the world) has a claim against their former masters, and, oh yea, the Maya and Incan Indians have a really good claim against the Spanish. We haven't even begun to debate the legality of a quasi-self appointed group telling a sovereign nation they owe...But I am sure there will be lot's of lawsuits with this. If it comes to pass, I will lobby my Represenative to get back all the welfare money spent on everyone, with interest, since reparations would address that as well...what a mess...
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    Posted by Blanco 7 years, 6 months ago
    No black person living today in America was ever enslaved, and no white American living today ever owned slaves. I don't owe those whiners and "victims" anything, and they don't owe me anything.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      Exactly! To go down that road invites all the other results I put in above. It makes no sense in that you ascribing a debt to 20 generations later, as well as the benefits. It is pure political, feel good theater.
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      • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 6 months ago
        What a cabal . Thanks Rockefeller's for your helping create this institution that would enslave all of us to fund the fascist socialist majority in the world. The US is not to be divvyied up by a majority vote from the rest of the world in the form of UN anti white edicts.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
    I read this report by another writer elsewhere this morning. I'm going to repeat what I read in the reader remarks column beneath it~

    "The first freed slave is welcome to step right up and receive his reparations."

    That comment was only in regard to the USA, of course, Other remarks looked pretty much like what I'm reading here.
    The UN has become a stupid joke. I've read here and there that Obama want to be its chairman.
    Should that happen, guess I'll call him The Joker after that Batman villain.
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    • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 6 months ago
      The UN was never anything but an attempt to hold the results of WW2 in place forever with duct tape, just like the League of Nations and the Congress of Vienna before it. Like the others it will lose its relevance and dissolve in the next major war, which will be soon. (Or it will become the organization controlling one side in that war, probably not ours.)
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  • Posted by KRUEG 7 years, 6 months ago
    The salves came from Africa, they were captured by Africans, sold to slaver who may or maynot have been Americans and brought to this country. So far, so good. Then this country decided that slavery was WRONG and something was done about that (ask all the dead guys from the Civil War). Are we going to give the families of those killed for slaves freedom reparations? QUESTION:
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      It was more an economic issue than not. The countries main products were farm ones, and the lack of resources dictated a response that the elite then (our founding fathers) felt was justified. The fact some of them did not participate, or endorse it is left out of most discussion.
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      • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
        Actually, the majority of the participants in the Continental Congress opposed slavery and wanted to abolish it even then, but they recognized that they needed 2/3 of the States to ratify the Constitution and they couldn't get to that number without the South - including Virginia. So they dropped it, knowing that it would have to be taken up at a later time.
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          Yes, and specific Founding Fathers (Jefferson comes to mind) did have slaves, although Jefferson supposedly treated his fairly, and rumor had it he even had children through some.
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          • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
            Jefferson opposed slavery. He even tried to put condemnation of the British for establishing the slave trade into the Declaration of Independence. He didn't have the authority on his own to abolish slavery whatever he could have done to denounce his own personal ownership.
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          • Posted by LibertyBelle 7 years, 6 months ago
            I heard on a radio talk show that Jefferson attemp-
            ted to free his slaves but was not allowed to be-
            cause he was in debt. (I still don't understand why
            he couldn't have paid off the debts by selling the
            land, and then have set his slaves free, however).
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
    i am so DONE with black people and their entitlements. I didnt bring any of their grand daddys over tight pack, and I dont think any of them are still alive. So its time for a reset. I am not racist, but I AM a culturist and I dont like the entitled cultures of today, which unfortunately includes a LOT of the black people. Obama has made it worse by coddling them too.

    I am one of the basket of deplorables for sure, and I am NOT politically correct. But these are my thoughts as of today.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      Put in perspective, yes bad things were done to black people. Bad things were done to Native Americans. Bad things were done to a lot of people by a lot of people.I agree with you, in that it is just an attempt to ostracize a group by another group, and is just a "feel good maneuver". If they want to go find abused people, I would say the living Jews who survived the Germans have a better case, yet the UN NEVER has mentioned that. Totally nonsequiter.
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      • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
        Its just time to move on to the future. As far as I am concerned, the whole term "racism" should be expunged from the vocabulary at this point.

        I am going to take heat for this, but I really think that the intellectual idea of inferiority because of "race" is really dead. One could argue that that concept was known to be inaccurate even during slavery, but was perpetuated so as to get free labor from an easily identifiable group of human beings by making them feel inferior. That was BAD.

        That said, this is 2016, and although a lot of people want to get a bigger piece of the pie at the expense of others, its no longer an issue of "race'. Its what they can get away with based on economic or political power- whether its paying women less for the same work as a man, or whatever.

        Everyone profiles in so many ways today. The world is too complex to initially spend time on each person, product, place to live, etc. Profiling allows us all to make choices quickly that are not 100% accurate all the time, but are sufficiently accurate to allow is to live in the complex society.

        I dont look at race at all. I dont even see color of skin. There are so many people of mixed race that it just doesnt make sense to look at that. I think Obama has done more damage to relations between blacks and whites than we realize. He prefers blacks specifically (look at his appointments to government). Look at his reactions to "black lives matter".
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        • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 6 months ago
          The only remaining important effect of a person's color/ethnicity is that it can make him somewhat more or less likely to listen to those demagogues who still consider race to be an issue. And pretty much to a man, they are deliberate troublemakers like Al Sharpton, whose deaths will be cause for celebration.
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    • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
      Equating "black people" with an "entitlement" mentality is racist. Opposing racism is a moral issue, not "politically correct". See Ayn Rand's essay "Racism" in *The Virtue of Selfishness". Racism is the crudest form of collectivism.
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      • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
        If the shoe fits... in this culture at this time and particularly in the west where I live- a very high percentage of black people definitely feel "entitled". It's NOT a uniquely black thing. Lots of other people feel "entitled" too so profiling purely on skin color is not 100% accurate. One must add in the way a person talks, dresses, and other clues to more accurately assess them.

        This has nothing to do with "racism" which I would define as including someone as a legitimate member of humanity with the associated human rights. True racism died a long time ago. Now the charge of racism is just used to get special preferential treatment for some people.

        I am not a racist at all. But I am certainly a culturist in that I prefer dealing with people who exhibit certain cultural traits- entitlement NOT being one of them, whether it be the entitlement of royalty, statist party members, or "black lives matter" proponents
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        • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
          "i am so DONE with black people and their entitlements" and "If the shoe fits..." are overtly racist. So is making sweeping claims against individuals for their race on the basis of a claimed probability.

          Racism is not an outdated concept no longer valid. The facts which give rise to it are judging people on the basis of inherited physical characterics like color, which we see throughout today's society from and directed at individuals of all kinds.
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          • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
            ewv, what happens though, when a group identifiable by a specific characteristic, claims special privilege? Racism would seem to be more related to an abhorrence of a group based solely on that characteristic. If one has a dislike because of the claimed special privilege they did not earn through their own efforts, but claim based on their characteristic, is that not to be rejected? That is one issue I have with using "ism" statements, it tends to grant special immunity to a group based on an overall generic label. I am inclined to agree with terms claim of "being done with black people and their entitlement" in that just because you are black does NOT entitle you to jack squat. You are entitled to the same rights and freedoms, and responsibilities, as everyone else, and should be judged and related to as individuals. The "label groups" tend to use it a a refuge from responsibility.
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            • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
              Including every black in a sweeping statement about the primitive ideas of some who are notorious is racism. It obviously does not include Clarenc Thomas or Ben Carson, to name just two prominent examples. Racism versus the ethnic primitives is a false alternative. It is very important as an individualist to not engage in any kind of racism. Read or reread the essays cited nearby https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
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              • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
                I am not arguing the point of what counts as inclusion, I do not see terms statement as racist, in that it is a definition of the issue of the "group mentality" that says "I am different, therefore treat me different". I a group asking for special treatment isn't racist, then what is is? By definition, they are defining themselves in a racist format. The statement "All blacks are mistreated and not presented" such as is bandied about by the "feel sorry for them" crowd, is just as racist, and also does not represent Thomas or Carson or many others either. It goes both ways. I am saying I agree with term that I am not supportive of ANY group that tells me they are special because of some unique trait. All are to be treated and evaluated as individuals. In such we are an incredibly racist society, go fill out any form you can find, and there is a racist block where you tell them what special interest group you belong to.
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                • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
                  He made a sweeping, all inclusive statement about the mentality of "black people". All "black people" do not have a "group mentality" demanding "special treatment". those who do, of any color, are racist tribalists demanding entitlements by birth, but that is not what he wrote.
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          • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
            My comments have nothing to do with race. It's entitlements that I don't like. Unfortunately for black culture a high percentage of blacks in my experience are very entitled
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            • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
              You wrote "i am so DONE with black people and their entitlements". The sweeping reference to 'black people' is racism. Judging individuals as members of a racial group by what you think a percentage are is racism, which is an injustice and offensive to all of us.

              The entitlement mentality within some groups is dangerous but is not countered by racism. You should read or reread Ayn Rand's essays "Racism" in The Virtue of Selfishness and "Global Balkanization" on "ethnicity", entitlement by birth, and racism and their cause and their role in the process of the decline of civilization in The Return of the Primitive. Also Peter Schwartz's "Multicultural Nihilism" in The Return of the Primitive.
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              • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
                I appreciate your abhorrence of the concept of racism. Treating another human being as an animal devoid of human rights just isn't accurate

                But I don't think it's an "injustice" to like or not like anyone. I respond to someone's core values, which seems to be formed to a large extent by the culture in which they are raised and by their reaction to it.

                If I lived in a town of 50 people, I could take time to know each of those people and react to each of them individually. In Las Vegas with nearly 3 million residents and 40 million visitors- one needs to develop ways to more quickly evaluate the people one meets.

                Hence the concept of profiling came to be used as a way to more quickly but less accurately form initial impressions of people based on observation of certain traits and personal experience. It's a normal and reasonable reaction to living in a populated place. It's not racism. It's a recognition of the powerful effect of cultural upbringing. You could call me a culturist, but not a racist. For example. I have no issues with Ben Carson , an obviously black man. I
                don't know him and I really don't notice his color or care about it. On the other hand when I see black young people with their pants hanging halfway up, I initially categorize them as undesirable, as I would a white person who acted that way. My initial assessment could be wrong possibly, but that's a chance I am willing to take
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                • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
                  You don't have to know everyone who is black to know that that their ideas don't come from their color. You wrote, "i am so DONE with black people and their entitlements", not that you don't like people "with their pants hanging halfway up". The sweeping reference to 'black people' is obvious racism. Those were you own words and you are still trying to defend it.

                  Profiling in a legal context means to narrow down suspects of a crime in accordance with known partial descriptions, recognizing that is only an investigation under which everyone is innocent under the process proven guilty.

                  It does not mean that everyone who may meet the partial description is guilty and it doesn't mean that such people have the same ideas associated with their color. "Profiling" in that way is racism. It's an irrational, crude collectivism grouping people into 'classes' on the basis of race.
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                  • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
                    I understand your points, but I dont care about their race or color. Its just that on the news every day are black people crowing about being treated right, and demanding things like "black lives matter" as opposed to "all lives matter". THAT is racism in that there is an expectation of special treatment BECAUSE they are black.

                    We profile all the time, not only relative to other people, but also relative to neighborhoods, restaurants, etc. I like your definition of profiling in your post.
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                    • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
                      You can stay out of neighborhoods and restaurants you are wary of, and you can denounce the tribalist racists, without making sweeping, racist statements yourself lumping all blacks into one mentality.
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                      • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
                        I think you are too sensitive on the issue of racism, and lump a lot of things into that category. Maybe for political correctness, I dont know. I am not politically correct, I will admit 100%
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                        • Posted by ewv 7 years, 6 months ago
                          Racism is an evil. This is not a matter of "sensitive". It is dead wrong. You wrote "i am so DONE with black people and their entitlements". That is an overtly racist statement, not someone else "lumping a lot of things into that category". It's your own statement.
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                          • Posted by term2 7 years, 6 months ago
                            Perhaps I should have written it in a more politically correct way- such as " I am tired of hearing black people complaining about not being treated the way they feel they are entitled to be treated". I AM tired of listening to that. I do think the police are a bit trigger happy in general, and that should be stopped.
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                            • Posted by ewv 7 years, 5 months ago
                              No, it's not a matter of "political correctness". Being opposed to "political correctness" does not mean opposing rational standards of thought and action.
                              .
                              We are all tired of hearing some black people chanting O-bam-a' as they demand free Obamaphones and the equivalent in their mindless, anti-conceptual shrieking, but we are also tired of the white (olive, brown, yellow, orange, etc.) intellectuals and agitators supporting it. It can't be opposed by becoming racist oneself, sinking into the tribal battles.

                              It is an anti-conceptual trend which is itself racist and ethnist as it promotes the primitive in the name of an alternate "culture". For the relation of this process to the rest of the decline we are seeing, read the articles cited above in Ayn Rand's anthology *The Return of the Primitive". This rot is much deeper than crude racism and welfare statism, but thoroughly related to both. You will find a lot in those essays that you already see in what your object to, plus a more fundamental explanation.
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                  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
                    ewv, I disagree, in that their ideas are not a result of color but of culture. It is also a group mentality issue, just as the Progressive movement is. I know many black people, all of whom do NOT fit the issue that term was addressing. I have seen perfectly educated, straight talking black people go into a predominantly black area and immediately change their speech and patterns, and they have told me it is to "fit into the neighborhood". It is the same as someone gong to the deep south, or acquiring an accent. It is not racist to recognize that that group mentality has certain traits, one of which appears (and that is not based on direct observation of all members) a group identity that says "you owe me" or want handout. That does not directly translate as a racial trait, it is cultural. You will find the same trait in what are colloquially known as "white trailor trash" as well. It cmes from the political manipulation of special interest groups, and MAKING them believe they are dependent on the government, and not requiring each individual to own their own actions. Instead, it offers them the option to blame all issues on the system, and others.
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                    • Posted by ewv 7 years, 5 months ago
                      "Black" refers to inherited color. Don't equate that with ideas. The "their" you are referring to is all "black people".

                      Adopting tribalist ideas is an intellectual state, which itself usually includes its own racism but is not inherited along with color. In particular it is thoroughly anti-conceptual. Read Ayn Rand's essay on "Global Balkanization" cited above.
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                      • Posted by $ 7 years, 5 months ago
                        I beg to differ, "black" is term co-opted to refer to a social grouping today, witness the woman in Washington, (the professor at some eastern college) who "claimed" to be black, was a professor of black studies, and who was, in the end white. It is a term that is used today to describe a social as well as a physical trait, and that is part of the issue with using ANY labels. Again, i prefer to look at the individual, their goals and motivations, and always ask "why" in relation to all that goes on. The "why" is more important that the "what", because that's where the true motivations are. If BLM was valid, they would have burnt down Chicago by now, over the 5,000 blacks killed there each year. But that does not matter when you look at their "why".
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                • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
                  Exactly. It is the individual characteristics that determine how you will relate to them, and when they seek to attach themselves to a specific "special group", that interpretation naturally transfers.
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          It is a key concept in how people manipulate each other. Politicians push the "you are special" concept.That gives them power oiver more groups, allows them to manipulate them with special laws and money programs. This all gets tied into the whole picture.
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  • Posted by walkabout 7 years, 6 months ago
    And I thought the winners wrote history. Truth is less than half of "African-Americans" trace their American-ness to slavery. The majority trace to someone in the late 1800's or early 1900's who had the good sense to escape Africa and immigrate to America. Keith B Richburg in his book, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, struggles with his realization that the best thing that ever happened to him (Richburg) was that a distant relative was captured by some other African and sold to traders and shipped off to the new world. He notes and thoroughly documents that the poorest, most discriminated against modern day African-American has it vastly better than the average person of color in much -- if not most -- of modern day Africa.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 6 months ago
    Slavery In The Past"
    Rome, Greece, and over 100 others.
    Slavery Present:
    Most Muslim States
    When to those reparations start? What about current slavery? What about so-called White Slavery? What about the German reparations for the Jews?
    Stupid is as stupid does. -- Forrest Gump
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      Exactly, The Jews have a better case against the Germans. You could also add in about 20 other ethnic groups who were put in forced labor camps. No reparations were pursued because the big fear was the Commie Bastards coming over the hill, so the money was needed for tanks and guns, and to rebuild the economy so the people didn't get stupid and buy into the commie ideal.
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      • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 6 months ago
        If anyone deserves reparations from the USA it is the descendants of the Japanese who were interned during WW2. Thank you, FDR.
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          Another one to add to the list, pretty soon we have no one who does not get reparations from someone eh?
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          • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 6 months ago
            No.
            The Japanese who were American citizens were taken from their homes, their jobs, their professions and were set into what only can be called upper class concentration camps. And by upper class, I mean better than Germany's but not as good as a citizen could do for himself. If the Constitution meant anything at all, putting American citizens in such a setting is illegal, and I'm not so sure about non-citizens. And if we were being strictly fair, Native Americans probably fall into that category. But, I wasn't advocating reparations for Japanese Americans, only pointing out that as you say, there's no end to payoffs once that Pandora's box is opened.
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            • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
              THank you, and actually I do think what happened was both wrong and illegal. FDR had threatened to "pack the court" by increasing the number of judges on it, until he got his way. THat was in 1932 or 3 I think, and as I understand it, after that, he could do about anything he wanted and it was "constitutional". Many of his schemes came about after that, that the court previously had found unconstitutional. It hasn't changed since.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 7 years, 6 months ago
    My great-great-great-great grandparents were some sort of serfs in Denmark and Sweden and maybe Norway. The state of Minnesota thus owes me reparations! Now, now! Or I'll sing "Nu er det Jul igen" until everyone dies of it.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 6 months ago
    Wasn't it reparations that created conditions for the rise of Hitler? These people never learn.
    Typical reporting by the Dark Center Post and typical socialist accusations by the UN.
    One of the statists best weapons that helps them to concentrate more power is accusation of racism to set groups against each other and distract from who is currently guilty of pushing millions into serfdom and slavery under their UN masters.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 7 years, 6 months ago
    And what about American Indian tribes' gaining
    reparations from other American Indian tribes, for
    the many wars they fought against each other?--
    This notion of holding people responsible for the crimes of their ancestors has no validity.--But what do you expect when you have an international organization which tries to get worldwide dominance? We should pull out of the
    United Nations and send it out of New York.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 6 months ago
    So much nonsense. Why are they even working on this. A real president and secretary of state would tell the UN to stay out of fringe in-country affairs like this, and get back to real issues, or the US will start making life difficult for them.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      I think it is good reason to scrap the whole mess and reclaim the building. Haven't gotten anything done by them in 80 years.
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      • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 6 months ago
        I do like the ruling on the China Sea though!
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          And China and Russia said they would not follow it, and would do what they want, ergo, useless organization. The ruling is correct, but everyone justs uses the organization for their own ends, and stonewalls it with their damn vetos. Just like our own dysfunctional crowd here.
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          • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 6 months ago
            Actually, was that ruling even from the UN? I think it was an international court at the Haugue.

            Yet another power grab by FDR. More government, more government.
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            • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
              Yes it was an international court ruling that had been cooking for some incredible amount of time like 10 years). Despite all that "careful" deliberation, since they didn't like it, it didn't fit their plans, they ignored it. Another example of not getting along on the playground...
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              • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 6 months ago
                And now the Phillipenes won't do US war games anymore. Great reduction in our influence there. Next Taiwan will reintegrate and Korea will but Chinese warplanes
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                • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
                  Well, that in itelf shows how fickle politics is, their new president makes Trump look sane and a pacifist. Yet they will be the first to whine when the Chinese kick them out of the North Pacific and declare it theirs.
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  • Posted by Riftsrunner 7 years, 6 months ago
    I am sorry but I am an individual. How am I responsible for what others do? If I were responsible for violating another's rights then I would endeavor to make them whole again. However, my hands are clean and I feel zero need to remedy the faults of my fellow and former citizens. And I feel zero need to compensate victims to wrongs I had no part in committing. So take your Social Justice somewhere else, because it is a perversion of what true justice is.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 6 months ago
    Most of the other nations that make up the UN subject minorities, women, and minor children to horrific repression. Tribal conflict in those lands destroys lives and national wealth, senselessly. It is the height of hypocrisy for that body to be calling for our nation, which has spent trillions of dollars to elevate the minority condition, to pay reparations.

    The question is just how long the U.S. is going to continue our masochistic relationship with that corrupt body. I say send the whole pack of bandits back to Geneva, where they can share quarters with the EU corruptocrats.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      On the mark Doc! I would say they should waste their time addressing the current persecution of Yazadis by Syria, and force Russia to pay them reparations as state sponsors of terrorism. Stop wasting time in ancient history.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
    Well, here we are, it IS starting....

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...
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    • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 6 months ago
      I think the UN owes everyone reperations not just for what they are doing now but what every country in the UN has done to mankind in general.

      How about Africa paying back themselves for slavery, the same goes for all muslim countries and what about Egypt, Rome and china...they owe mankind a lot too!

      How about the Cannibals give us back all the human bodies they eat...Hell, lets go after the Anunikki on planet Niburu for the nephilim and for molesting our daughters? How about all the aliens that mutilated all our cows in the Midwest?

      See how ridiculous it gets?
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      • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
        Thank you, it is absurdity magnifico. The whole "You done me wrong" thing will daisy chain into forever, because every nation has done it, some intentionally, some not. How about all the countries that used debtor prisons, and turned people into slaves through indentured service? That is just as much damage as any other. How about being indentured to the Government for 4.5 months of each year to give them their loot? You are right on the money, Carl...now give it to every sad excuse you can find, YOU OWE!
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  • Posted by fosterj717 7 years, 6 months ago
    Great! Now we are being lectured by a bunch of 3rd world Banana Republic despots! We should pay reparations when the UN finally gets rid of all of the modern day slavery and human trafficking. Then, and only then can anyone discuss this stupid subject with us. The world is going to hell in a hand-basket and these fools are fixated on this tomfoolery! Go figure......

    BTW, these same idiots after October 1 (unless Congress finds some integrity and guts) will be running the Internet as well. Goodbye freedom and sovereignty!
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
    How about a simple: Yes, that's old history and it's over?

    How about: Let's see where slavery is still practiced... Oh, in Africa - where junta lords conscript young boys to fight wars for them! And everyone involved is BLACK.

    How about: recognizing that this is just another cult of blame that does nothing but dwell on the past instead of moving toward the future?

    How about: making someone who isn't culpable pay for someone else's actions is in and of itself slavery. Your great-great-grandparents were slaves, but somehow that entitles you to collect reparations from someone else's great-great-grandchildren?

    Garrrhhhh. These things just get my blood pressure up because they are so STUPID.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      It is beyond stupid, to the point you have to ask about the timing. Is it a coincidence that we have had a string of "black murders" that seemingly were done by incredibly stupid cops, and right after that we have this?
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      • Posted by $ blarman 7 years, 6 months ago
        Not coincidence at all. Opportunism.
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          I am a conspiracy theorist at heart, because I do not trust that we see all that is really going on. Too many weird things for it to be chance, and this is just one of them. Too many "incidents", just like too many people die when around a Clinton.
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          • Posted by $ jdg 7 years, 6 months ago
            The "BLM" movement is certainly a conspiracy, it doesn't even tried to hide Soros' involvement via the Ruckus Society. I am waiting for the families of slain police officers to open a case against him. Civil forfeiture of his fortune would be poetic justice.
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      • Posted by fosterj717 7 years, 6 months ago
        It seems as if "Black Lives" only matter as long as these morons can implicate some other race. Other than that the thousands of deaths in Chicago are just another "ho-hum" for the Soros inspired idiots! These poor folks are nothing more than Progressive "cannon fodder" as was the plan of Gramsci and Allinsky from the get-go! Need more be said?
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
          A valid point, and something that indicates BLM is more than a social movement, but is a political creation intended to make the non progressive side the bad guy and the killer of all blacks. There has yet to be an honest and open discussion of the issue and may never be, as it does not seem to be on the agenda, only the manipulation factor of the group is important to those who created it.
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          • Posted by fosterj717 7 years, 6 months ago
            Yes! The mainstream media is complicit in this idiotic charade of the sublime. What is their true motivation I wonder? Well! I guess one shouldn't be surprised when all of the media outlets are owned by 6 conglomerates. That is an incredible amount of power concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy oligarchs (including George Soros and his clown friends).....
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            • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
              You are on the right track, there appears to be something in the background that is instigating and controlling the spin of a series of events. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but the Beast cannot get away with all her crap, unless someone higher up wants it. Also, many will contest, but I have seen the different levels of security clearances, and there are several above the President. How can that be? Too much goes on today both in and out of the US, not for it to manipulation. One reason I am leery of Trump. Look at Ben Carson, paraded on Fox for 2 years as logical, smart, and cool. Let him run and then he is lecturing a group on why the word is only 30,000 years old. Hello?
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            • Posted by ewv 7 years, 5 months ago
              The "mainstream media" is "complicit" in the ideas of the intellectuals that have spread for over a century. That is their "true motivation". Reforming the philosophical corruption requires spreading the right ideas, not anti-intellectual conspiracy theories about "conglomerates" and "wealth".
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              • Posted by fosterj717 7 years, 5 months ago
                So! You "worship" at the feet of the "Intellectual Elite"? Concentrating power in the hands of a few is quite alright with you? I'm not sure why you are lurking no this blog being that it is essentially for folks who are at least somewhat "Objectivist" in nature. If you think that these "Intellectuals" that you find so compelling in the better understanding of the nature or things is so solid, perhaps you can explain why the "Best and Brightest" of Camelot so screwed up our country with the Vietnam war and the "not so" Great Society. Perhaps you can also explain how this administration made up of the highest percentage of "Intellectual Elites" ever seen in any Presidency could have the economy and the world as screwed up as it is. Contrary to the "Intellectual" mantra, you cannot lead from behind, especially when trying to implement a Top Down, Command and Control Tyranny such as is now emerging. Your arguments in favor of "Intellectuals" being the one's to save us is foolish at best and downright criminal at worst! The philosophical corrupt belongs to modern academia sorry to say! Again, Ayn Rand seems to be spot on!
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                • Posted by $ 7 years, 5 months ago
                  fosterj717, seems that you are being kind of acidic here, I am not sure I took the discussion in that way. You are absolutely correct in your assertions about "intellectuals", I agree there has never been a case I am aware of, where they have achieved anything positive. In fact, any time I see that term applied, it is always a negative, in that they seem to just be another take on the same political worms who use everyone to continue to loot society for their own agendas. I do not see where any intellectual has produced anything of value in regards to social or political system. They are great if we are talking fusion reactors, physics or electronic circuits. They should limit their work to that. I think the term was pirated a hundred years or so ago to separate the looters who can tie their shoes and the ones who need slip ons. In the media, I have found no such creature as an "intellectual", they are all self absorbed gas bags who continue to peddle their specific brand of theft. The media just uses them to get out of the use of mono-syllabic words now and then.
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                  • Posted by $ 7 years, 5 months ago
                    Also, I do not consider AR as an "intellectual" in the term that we are using. She actually had a moral and ethical basis to her philosophy, where as I see the others who get that label to just blather their opinons wrapped in fabrication.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 6 months ago
    It's an absurd notion-- very wrongheaded. It's weird to see the Washington Post writing about so seriously. The whole crux of the problem was people seeing themselves as members of racial identity groups. The panel calls for continuing that, continuing treating people different according to their racial identity. It's so wrong.
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