QHC@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•EU says slavery inflicted 'untold suffering', hints at reparationsEnglish
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1 year agoThe past happened, we can’t ignore it. Acknowledging that injustices happened in the past and we have the ability to do something now to try and reverse that is not “living in the past”.
Or help with fighting the climate change? Or helping developing nations to get to our level?
Arguably, both of these are exactly what we mean by “reparations”.
Doesn’t this entirely invalidate the claims of people like Boebert that woke-ism ruins people’s personalities and thought processes? Shouldn’t she be able to see that this guy was a degenerate trans groomer or whatever without needing to know his “political affiliation”?
If not, perhaps the negative side effects of people-with-different-opinions is not actually a fatal condition, after all.