I kind of wish, but there’s a cycle to mobilization, too; hundreds of thousands were in the streets against the Iraq war, and that movement stayed mostly active through to almost the absolute bitter end of Bush’s second term, but it vaporized the minute that Obama was in office. Liberals are usually perfectly fine…

You do realize that at this point there are more immigrants with brown skin than descendants of slaves, right? According to Wikipedia 10.3% (based on census data). And what could we possibly use the validate who those people are? many people can’t trace their lineage back before WW2 (myself included). I’m not…

You aren’t creating equality of opportunity. You are trying to achieve equality of outcome, which is demonstrably impossible, and you are disregarding my natural right to my stuff to serve your own ego.

Trying to be cosmic arbiter of other people’s stuff always results in staggering levels of human misery. Socialism’s hundreds of millions of dead can attest to the importance of respecting individual agency and the possession of property. On the flip side, the spread of free market economics has resulted in the…

Problem with that argument is that it can easily be flipped:

Really? You really can’t understand why reparations would be controversial?