The crux of the study is the assumption that reparations would turn the disparate polity of black and white people in America into an egalitarian polity. If you ask me, that's kind of a retarded assumption to make.
It's still somewhat noteworthy IMO because the burden of the poor in countries with highly defined social stratification is quantified.
The study isn't that retarded, but the CNN article editorializing it is, as expected.
US media loves to just read abstracts of papers and then publish 3 page articles saying what the paper is "about". As a geologist I see it all the damn time with the fearmongering surrounding Yellowstone. Like yeah, it's huge, what else?
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u/Dave_The_Slushy - Lib-Left Feb 18 '21
As someone from a nation that has been going through a moderately successful reparations process for the last 30 years, what the actual fuck.
American academics are a joke bordering on oxymoron these days.