sundin13 said:
...What? Who said anything about punishing white people? Also, racist governmental policy didn't end with slavery... |
Perhaps "punish" is the wrong word. I was searching for a term to describe how the government takes money out of the pockets of people who never had anything to do with racism, slavery, racist policy (nor their ancestors for that matter), to give that money to people because of their skin colour. I would view that as racist, unjust punishment. Of course this (-govenment help exclusive for people of a certain skin colour) would not only punish white people but all people not of that skin colour.
You want to help the poor? Do that yourself. You want to govenment to help the poor with my money? Don't make the criteria for help racist. The only way to meritocracy is through equal oportunity. Perhaps we are not far enough away from those past injustices for everybody to see that we already have equal oportunity. But time is on my side. In 100 years these prfessional complainers and victims will still cry out about generational trauma and wealth inequality. Same in 500 years if they should not have got their act together by then.
