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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Better genuine question: how much in reparations do you think the dutch government is responsible for?

How could I answer that without knowing how far back their guilt is supposed to go?

You answer my question, and I'll have the tools to answer your's.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I'm not the person you're replying to, but maybe as far back as we have receipts?

In this case, there's no mystery about who did what to whom and what they took. The Dutch and English kept very good records. In fact, the whole colonial project was very well accounted for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wait so guilt is only inherited if it is documented well?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone seriously thinks guilt can be inherited... "Ancestral guilt" is a totally stupid concept, and framing colonial reparations that way is arguing in bad faith.

I thought it would be funny to point out we literally have the receipts of colonialism, but that turned out to be arguing with pigeons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I am glad the nicer version of the argument you have created for yourself matches up with the argument that you wish they had made.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is that what I'm doing, what Pug is doing or what you are doing? (downvote if it's you so I can know)

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