re: The Atlantic publishes article claiming white folks stole 6.6 billion dollars of land

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The American government to Japanese-Americans in the 1980s.

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Granted. Didn't know the government paid out for that.

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You mean because they're taxpayers? Meh. They'll survive. We seem to despite the farm subsidies we pay.

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I'm going to guess that where we differ is that I see a moral problem in making those who are not guilty pay for those who are, whereas you are seeing it as a collective responsibility regardless of individual culpability.

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This just makes no sense - the US government WAS responsible.

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Are you part of the government? Did you make these decisions? If not, how are you responsible?

Unless you suggest we provide reparations of this sort in lieu of other spending, but even then, the cost is still borne by those (99.999%) who have had no involvement at all with the wrongdoing. I have a problem with this.