U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel
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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The demand for "slavery reparations" is a demand that one group of people be forced to pay a second group of people for something a third group of people did to a fourth group of people, centuries earlier, because people in the first group look a little like the people in the third group and people in the second group look a little like the people in the fourth group.
Therefore the demand itself is blatant racism - racial collectivism, to be precise.
This kind of thing could only fail to be laughed right out of public discourse at its first uttering, in a society in which reason has been so corrupted by institutional (read: educational,) irrationality that virtually any claim to anything, no matter how absurd, is given fair hearing as legitimate. Which latter is a good description of present-day America, unfortunately.
What this fiasco tells us is two things, loud and clear:
1. Our educational "system" - IOW America's schools, from K through advanced collegiate levels, is permeated with intellectual poison and must be given a complete overhaul. What this means in real terms is a complete separation of education and state, and everything such a separation would imply. But as Peikoff noted a full 34 years ago in "Ominous Parallels," we are arguably beyond the point of no return. That was true in 1982, far more the case now;
2. The International Tyrants' Day Care Center, Manhattan Campus (a.k.a. the "UN,") must be eradicated. It's pointless to attempt repealing or even repelling any of its edicts and outrages past or present. The entire entity must be dissolved - not just on this particular bit of UN insanity, but on the entire seven-decades-long edifice of similar insanity. The United States should formally withdraw both its presence and funding from it, in total; it should send a non-negotiable eviction notice to all its members, kick the entire pack of them off of American soil and turn the complex into a combination shopping mall and apartment building; it should lean as hard as diplomatic channels allow on its allies the world over, encouraging them to do the same, including a refusal to grant them real estate for relocation. Let the remaining dregs of the political world set up shop in the banquet hall of some ratty nightclub in Kiribati or Socotra, and plot their world conquest schemes over shiny plastic tablecloths while they fight to keep the flies off of their sandwiches.
Unfortunately, any chance to get anyone with the inclination to take either of these essential actions into office this year, was wiped out when a Democrat was handed the "Republican" nomination for President.
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