Would this welfare be distributed in part on racial criteria, or would it be distributed on the basis of individual need?
Reread my post then try again. (Hint: Note the part where I say "I am not advocating reparations.")
You were unclear on this question in your original post. I ask again: "Would this welfare be distributed in part on racial criteria, or would it be distributed on the basis of individual need?"
And from where is the money to originate?
Progressive taxation. That was easy.
As long as it is distributed in a race- and gender-blind fashion, as much as possible, I have no problem with this that I would not have with any other scheme of economic redistribution.
What would "true racial and sexual equality" look like?
I have no idea and neither do you.
Sure I do. It would be a society in which your "race" or sex did not affect anyone else's opinion of you save in very narrow biological terms (he sunburns easy, she can bear children).
All I know is that we're not there yet, not by a long shot.
If you have no idea what true racial and sexual equality looks like, how do you know how far away we are from achieving it? If it's anything other than color-blind and sex-blind, which is what I advocate, then how do you know that (for instance) the modern West is more racially and sexually equal than the 18th century West, or for that matter World War II Imperial Japan?
By my criteria the reasons why we are superior in that regard are obvious. But by yours?
How convenient for you. This means you don't actually have to do anything about it. Except pontificate about how enlightened you are by "realizing" this.
Read my goddamn posts. I have not done everything I can to help the situation, and that is my personal failing.
By your definitions, I see absolutely nothing effective that anyone can do to help the situation. This allows you to confess a "personal failing" and feel superior to other Privileged White Males who fail to make this confession. Even more, since it puts you in the "privileged" position of being able to act while poor benighted Non-Whites and Women only get to re-act, it allows you to feel good old-fashioned racial and sexual superiority while pretending that you are feeling the OPPOSITE.
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Re: Victims
Date: 2012-04-10 08:00 am (UTC)Reread my post then try again. (Hint: Note the part where I say "I am not advocating reparations.")
You were unclear on this question in your original post. I ask again: "Would this welfare be distributed in part on racial criteria, or would it be distributed on the basis of individual need?"
And from where is the money to originate?
Progressive taxation. That was easy.
As long as it is distributed in a race- and gender-blind fashion, as much as possible, I have no problem with this that I would not have with any other scheme of economic redistribution.
What would "true racial and sexual equality" look like?
I have no idea and neither do you.
Sure I do. It would be a society in which your "race" or sex did not affect anyone else's opinion of you save in very narrow biological terms (he sunburns easy, she can bear children).
All I know is that we're not there yet, not by a long shot.
If you have no idea what true racial and sexual equality looks like, how do you know how far away we are from achieving it? If it's anything other than color-blind and sex-blind, which is what I advocate, then how do you know that (for instance) the modern West is more racially and sexually equal than the 18th century West, or for that matter World War II Imperial Japan?
By my criteria the reasons why we are superior in that regard are obvious. But by yours?
How convenient for you. This means you don't actually have to do anything about it. Except pontificate about how enlightened you are by "realizing" this.
Read my goddamn posts. I have not done everything I can to help the situation, and that is my personal failing.
By your definitions, I see absolutely nothing effective that anyone can do to help the situation. This allows you to confess a "personal failing" and feel superior to other Privileged White Males who fail to make this confession. Even more, since it puts you in the "privileged" position of being able to act while poor benighted Non-Whites and Women only get to re-act, it allows you to feel good old-fashioned racial and sexual superiority while pretending that you are feeling the OPPOSITE.
Nice racket.