You're repeating the exact same pattern with different words - connecting all men to rape, this time through masculinity. — Tzeentch
I think this kind of analysis applies straightforwardly to white people discriminating against people of color: white people largely have a blind spot that allows for discrimination against people of color by virtue of viewing the issue the way you do: that we live in a fair society and if poor people of color cannot uplift themselves, it is due to their own choices and shortcomings. You don't have to be a raging racist to be complicit in this mechanism, and so I think it is mostly acceptable to talk about white people at large in negative ways. — ToothyMaw
The general form of the remedy as it occurs to me is to provide for each individual an opportunity to recover what was taken. And again in general terms, what was taken was opportunity itself. — tim wood
I recall pictures from 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, of soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army escorting nine students into their high school. — tim wood
To the point: the dead are dead, and unless you can make the dead laugh, reparations to them is nonsense-talk. — tim wood
To the living, assistance to overcome the costs of the effects of prejudice. — tim wood
If not for the generous and more than generous gifts of the universe, where do you suppose you would be? — tim wood
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