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Why reparations are always about more than money

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By Kerry Whigham

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Where does going this far into history leave my country of choice

so far only able to conquer but not to keep it over time.

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Totally different.

Are they? One ends your life. The other ends your life of freedom, and forces you to live the hell. Both end your life, in different ways.

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ANYONE who escaped slavery will say they are thankful for the chance to live.

And what about those who were slaves then ended up dead? Do you think they appreciated the time to be alive and be property?

Or do only the ones that escaped count? And if so, why?

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I demand reparations and a personal apology from the president of Italy for the illegal invasion, religious oppression and human rights abuse of the Roman invasion!

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Why reparations are always about more than money...

No, they're not. Not even close to "always".

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This article is all over the place.

Germans killing Namibians, Torture and death of hundreds of thousands in Latin American countries. The Holocaust. Genocide in Cambodia.

Oh--slavery in the US.

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Christopher LoweryToday  01:27 am JST

Slavery is a high crime against humanity. It's on the same level as genocide. 

Totally different.

I don't know any country in the world that has the same penalty for killing someone or enslaving them.

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Reparations are part of a set of tools that societies use to respond to past mass violence.

OK, but how many generations back do we go? Are Europeans and Americans going to get reparations from Morocco and Tunesia for the thousands of sailors who were captured and enslaved by the Barbary Caliphates?

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How would you even quantify or delegate reparations, it's literally impossible, I just can't see it happening, the lawsuits would fly like crazy, just absurd on its head.

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The author of this poorly written article is a university professor?

But really, in the US today, what would reparations actually do?

If anything, I am for giving back certain lands to Indian tribes. Beyond that, there is no rationale for reparations, unless a former slave is still living.

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StrangerlandToday  01:51 am JST

Are they? One ends your life. The other ends your life of freedom, and forces you to live the hell. Both end your life, in different ways.

Oh, so they are the same? Not in any modern day country.

ANYONE who escaped slavery will say they are thankful for the chance to live.

Hey freed slave--you have two choices--you can die, or you can live freely.

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