struggle session time: doesn't black reparations also rely on this one drop rule? for better reasons than racial hatred does, obviously, but skin color-based reparations reifies the drop of blood logic in a way that seems pretty bad, e.g. there will be edge cases where the state has to decide if you're black enough. class-based wealth redistribution seems less messy. but idk im white
Basic reparations should be done across class lines IMO. Additional reparations will be needed, but a majority of injustices could be solved simply along class lines. It's complicated because in the U.S., race and class are so similar it's easy to think they are the same thing, but they aren't.
Yeah if you did reparations based on wealth instead of income you'd end up with reparations on race lines without explicitly codifying race into the law. It would have to be stable and consistent , not some weird fucking lump payment/transfer of property. And you'd avoid litigating like, one-drop shit.
struggle session time: doesn't black reparations also rely on this one drop rule? for better reasons than racial hatred does, obviously, but skin color-based reparations reifies the drop of blood logic in a way that seems pretty bad, e.g. there will be edge cases where the state has to decide if you're black enough. class-based wealth redistribution seems less messy. but idk im white
Basic reparations should be done across class lines IMO. Additional reparations will be needed, but a majority of injustices could be solved simply along class lines. It's complicated because in the U.S., race and class are so similar it's easy to think they are the same thing, but they aren't.
Yeah if you did reparations based on wealth instead of income you'd end up with reparations on race lines without explicitly codifying race into the law. It would have to be stable and consistent , not some weird fucking lump payment/transfer of property. And you'd avoid litigating like, one-drop shit.