This entire idea that descendants of those who made a mistake are somehow responsible has got to end NOW! To my knowledge, it probably began with war reparations immediately following conflicts. But now it has turned into a circus. Look, I’m sure someone in my past was hurt by someone else but I’m not pissed about it. Reparations in the US have long been out of control and un-called for… nobody alive today can/should be held responsible for the actions of those several generations before us.
The same goes for the recent debacle over the supposed use of American women as sex slaves This might be more recent, there are still people living that experienced it, but how the fuck can you fault an entire country for the actions of a few?
While I feel sorrow for the actions which took place, I feel no sense of responsibility for those for which people are asking for reparations in the US. I have enough problems managing the things that I have done and may perhaps do wrong in the future to apologize for something in which I wasn’t involved. Additionally, I have never harbored any mal-content for anyone that is a descendent from those that may have hurt my ancestors. We don’t prosecute children of criminals for the crimes perpetrated by their fathers, so why are we penalizing their children now?
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