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How are slavery reparations fair?

The argument goes, as a British citizen, you have and continue to benefit from policies that your government made a long time ago. Reparations are not a tax on you, but an expense the government should have paid at the time of the work, but instead it did things like kidnap people from their homes, transport them to where labor was necessary, and force them into work. Now, the people who are the descendents of the kidnapped folks are requesting that the bills their great great grandparents were never paid. To extend that, after slavery ended, many of those who had been enslaved were left disenfranchised, and impoverished to the point that there is almost no possibility of building generational wealth.

As for if this will open the floodgates or not, who knows. An argument could be made in both directions, it's not as though governments paying one time sums to places is rare, and reparations for wars used to be pretty run of the mill.

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Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy

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Wasn't gonna reply but you just seem like such a a charming person.

Why was the cop owed respect?

Who was the cop protecting when he demanded a citizen do something he had no right to demand?

Why is it ok for a grown ass man to shout down a child for not respecting them?

Has this cops behavior shown he is due respect?

When a cop lets his emotions out of control cause a kid doesn't kiss his ass hard enough, while the kid yes trying to bully remains calm, who IS due respect?

Fuck him specifically, fuck the police in general and fuck you.

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If you only criticize civilian casualties when Palestine resists, then your concern isn't civilian casualties. Your concern is Palestine resisting massacre.

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I am not a fan of Hamas, I just have to ask, wtf are the Palestinians supposed to do, and if you aren't expecting an animal you've backed into a corner to attack, wtf is wrong with you?

Those statistics are a preamble of why Hamas did this. I'm not at any point saying that it's a good thing, I'm saying that violence is literally the only tool Palestine has.