you in support of reparation payments?

seems to me just people wanting handouts and using history as a form to get it.
I think its the stupidest thing.
Just watched a Piers Morgan debate or screaming match if you wanna call it that where they were Arguing about the king of Britain having to apologize for slavery and the black women arguing for it could not answer a single question and would just rant on about nonsense and eventually when finally asked what she wants, she said reparations.
So Pierce went on to ask if Roman and Viking ancestors should have to pay him reparations also and she went on about not talking about slavery, so it confused me what the hell she wanted reparations for haha..
anyway its dumb, go get a job and stop trying to get handouts wherever you can as far as i am concerned.

thoughts?

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HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

Reparations are a reasonable thing to ask for in many cases. For example, I don't think that Germany should have just gotten away with whole genocides, making profit off other nations etc without paying back. People are alive today who watched their villages getting looted, their parents executed, couldn't go to school etc and of course no amount of money can soothe this pain but it's a way to make amends and move on. Another example, the modern Turkish nation was built due to the genocides that Atatürk committed, and of course I'm not going as far back to say that Turkey should pay for whatever happened during the Ottoman Empire, but the genocides specifically enabled the creation of the ethnonationalist republic of Turkey.
And it's not limited to those two examples, just look at anyone who can point at their family property/wealth they lost because of imperialism, the language they were forced to forget, the discrimination they still face because of history. These people cannot forget history and in my opinion those who profited off it should not forget it either- and reparations are a way to ensure that they do remember.

Torsten · 36-40, M

@HannibalAteMeOut people alive today who dealt through a horrible injustice, should seek some compensation.
Those who went through nothing and just trying to get money based off others history, deserve nothing

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@Torsten well this is usually done with some kind of proof, I can't just say I want reparations about whatever by whomever. But each case is different. Some people demand reparations directly to them because of what their own family went through, others demand it for their whole community because the effects of injusticies they faced in the past can be shown today and it's a way to bridge that gap in nations that strive to be fair & democratic.