Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 19 Dec 2021 07:26)
You didn't answer the question. Do you consider it racism to give reparations to the interned Japanese?
If the interned had died, would you consider it racism to give it to their kids?
This isn't about making a 1:1 comparison to black reparations for slavery. If you are against "racism now to correct racism in the past" then id think both would be unacceptable.
I don't consider it racist for the state to restitute persons it has actively and recently discriminated against.
However, I consider it racist to expect the whites of today to pay for reparations, or voluntarily give up status, just because some (not even all!) of their grand-grand-grand-grandparents enslaved or legally discriminated against the grand-grand-grand-grandparents of today's blacks. Segmenting society into "oppressors" and "oppressed" solely based on the color of people's skin, rather than their behavior or the content of their character, flies in the face of Martin Luther King's ideal and is textbook racism.
But go ahead, good luck winning public opinion over for the CRT (or CRT-adjacent if you insist) perspective that "a colorblind society is not good enough, state-mediated discrimination on racial grounds is needed to achieve racial justice".
Someone as intelligent as you should be able to see that this position is both ethically absurd and politically toxic as fuck.