It’s Time To Put the Reparations Idea to Rest.
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5 min readNov 22, 2019
It’s just a bad idea.
A Stranger on the Internet — whose name has now advanced to capital letters because of his and her ubiquity — got into a not-so-civil debate about “reparations” with me. Someone else had been slinging the “racist” word around about other people — those who didn’t agree with him, that is — and this other person interjected and asked me why I objected to what the…