Ten Reasons: Point By Point

[_Coggins7]

I'm going to use this thread to further refine and delineate the argument against reparations, as well as to make a point. That point is that there are precious few liberals in this forum (or anywhere else) who can approach this issue in a philosophically mature, civil, and critically serious manner. I promise here to do that and only that. Let us see if those who disagree with myself and David Horowitz can do the same. I expect little more that the usual: moral posing, profanity, name calling, and hominem attacks on the motivation and character of all, including myself and my sources, no matter how qualified and substantive.

Let's see if this thread can take a different path through the woods to Grandmother's house.

I'd like to deal here with all ten points of Horowitz' essay on why reparations are a bad idea, and do so one at a time, without derailing the thread preemptively to peripheral issues before the point is as fully fleshed out as it can be in a forum such as this. So, lets begin.



One

There Is No Single Group Clearly Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery

Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too?



Loran

[_Sam Harris]

Um, no one disagrees with you on this issue. We just don't like you. Can you stop shadowboxing and participate in real life again?