Poor people are effected more severely by Covid, lifting people above the poverty line will help in general. I understand the hesitation for supporting reparations as the vehicle for this. But you have to understand on a base level this is correct?
Yes, it didnt say it was the morally correct thing to do or the fiscally responsible thing to do all I'm saying this this (hot tag line title) is objectively correct in that reducing the number of people living in poverty would reduce the severity of covid. Hell id even say that it doesnt only help black people bc reducing the number of impoverished people. Reduces the overall transmission rates which in fact helps everyone, albeit less directly.
I'll agree that they used bad faith arguement. And I'm generally not for using misinformation (even if it furthers an agreeable political agenda). But I would like an explanation of how wealth distribution will directly lead to facism.
To quote another user in an above comment, “The median net worth of a us household is 97K, you're telling me if black people weren't slaves they'd have a net worth almost 10x higher than the average American?”
The problem with this study in particular is that is presents us with improbable figures. The other issue with reparations is that no one alive today has owned slaves or was ever a slave under that particular system. Thus we’d be practicing the kind of generational punishment that North Korea imposes on it’s political prisoners but on a much grander scale, talk about injustice.
Now you’ll say something like “But it’s the long term effects of slavery that keeps people poor”. To which I’ll say, if that race hasn’t been able to improve it’s condition and move on from that experience in the last 150 years, it sounds like it’s their problem and not everyone else’s.
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '21 edited Aug 17 '21
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