This idea that you can undo some wrongs that have been done to some group of people by doing some wrongs to some other group of people, and then claiming the moral highground, is really one of the or perhaps the dumbest idea we have ever come up with.
Spending money to give scholarships to people who are coming out of 300 years of tariff imposed poverty to access the same education as those who can easily afford to pay their food/housing costs in college is "the dumbest idea we have ever come up with" ?
Please recall we paid more in reparations to Germany post WW2 than we paid to India post-colonialism
We seem to not have much problem undo'ing the Nazis' wrongs with our money, why do we have a problem uplifting the Nigerians?
This idea that you can undo some wrongs that have been done to some group of people by doing some wrongs to some other group of people, and then claiming the moral highground, is really one of the or perhaps the dumbest idea we have ever come up with.
The comment above says "uplifting" could you not counter some wrongs by doing some rights?
No I understood the framing. But if you privilege all groups except one, you're not uplifting but discriminating.
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I don't know; we also grow corn for ethanol and add it to gas.
Spending money to give scholarships to people who are coming out of 300 years of tariff imposed poverty to access the same education as those who can easily afford to pay their food/housing costs in college is "the dumbest idea we have ever come up with" ?
Please recall we paid more in reparations to Germany post WW2 than we paid to India post-colonialism
We seem to not have much problem undo'ing the Nazis' wrongs with our money, why do we have a problem uplifting the Nigerians?
yee old Billionaire trolley problem "If we do anything, one white dude with too much money might suffer"
No child left behind
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