The Bonfire of the Sanities
9th March 2019
Steve Sailer looks at David Brooks and reparations.
Obviously, in Brooks’ conception, reparations aren’t intended to work in any real world sense. The point of Brooks “concrete gesture of respect” is that a really futile and stupid gesture of inchoate religious symbolism be done on white people’s part by setting fire to a giant pile of money.
But being concrete-minded myself and oriented toward starting from examples rather than abstractions, I’m fascinated by the practical questions of who gets how much.
An excellent question. How much is Maxine Waters owed because she was oppressed? How about Cory Booker?
March 9th, 2019 at 10:40
I wonder if the genetic testing industry is behind this scam. After all, in order to figure out how much each recipient is owed, wouldn’t everyone have to undergo genetic testing to determine what percentage of their DNA comes from an approved victim group? Shouldn’t the amount of the reparations be proportional to the amount of oppressed-person ancestry?
March 9th, 2019 at 14:32
In a world where Will Smith ‘isn’t black enough’, you may be right.
In any event, Jambalaya Harris, who has no slave ancestors, would be out of luck.