Think about taxing the rich? THAT’S SOCIALISM

Ponder if an apartheid state is doing a genocide? ANTISEMITISM

Don’t like the new Marvel movie? SEXIST! RACIST!

Freedom of speech died long ago and now there is no flow of ideas, even incrementally. We’re in big trouble

Allow me to complicate the trial. What if the robbed is no longer alive?

I feel you, and also acknowledge it is a hairy subject on a grand scale.

I also try to frame the issue in the actual, real moment. I try my damndest to do as little harm as humanly possible to anyone. Should I be forced to give money to someone affected? Land? Should I be punished?

Who benefits? A grandson of someone displaced? A great great grandson? Whole family trees? How do you make shit like this right after so much time?

Mostly, I’m trying to encourage thought and discussion. Fundamentally, I think people should be judged on their own merits and actions, not their lineage.

Define “make it right”. And for who, exactly?

But you and I did NOT. I see a lot of people online who can’t make the distinction.

EDIT: Thanks for replies, all. Some good conversation here

Unless we’re talking protesting or voting. Then they’re asleep.

Eh. I don’t buy it.