by Indy! on June 25, 2023 9:42 pm
I have a lot of questions about reparations too. My family has been working class literally all the way back to Plymouth Rock until my generation. There's also the argument that there have been reparations to some degree - Affirmative Action, whites fighting in the Civil War to free the slaves, etc... My family fought for the Union and I have the receipt - a photo of my great-great-grandfather in his uniform. Do I get anything for the debt the country owes my ancestors for that? I'm not 100% against reparations, but it sure will a sticky wicket trying to figure out who gets what.
So far as the sports thing, I think it should be genetically born sexes only. If trans folks want to compete - start another category for them (or two). If they think it's somehow "discriminatory"? That's life when it comes to sports. I was good at football - horrible at basketball. Did the school basketball teams discriminate against me because they never wanted to pick me for their teams? No. You don't get everything in life.
by HatetheSwamp on June 26, 2023 3:29 am
Yeah, Indy!. My dad's family arrived from Germany in the 1840s. My dad's great grandfather volunteered to fight in the Civil War for the Union Army, was captured and spent time in the Andersonville POW camp and suffered and nearly died there.
I think the descendants of American slaves should be paying me reparations. Eh?
