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I'd argue the correct analogy is "Suppose you were abused by society; should society be forced to address that abuse." But that's just me.


You're asking too much of society with such vague complaints. We should focus on getting basics right: prosperity, jobs, reduce crime, reduce road death, and so forth before navel-gazing about "abuse by society". In any case, even if society does somehow "address the abuse", it shouldn't come in the form of randomly abusing other people. But that's what you appear to be advocating for: Because some people were discriminated against, we should now randomly discriminate against some other people.


You complain of vague complaints, then propose vague solutions. Your terminology escalation to "abuse" seems absurd to me: it's not a zero-sum game, and white people in general seem to have done fine over the past fifty years of "abuse".


>You complain of vague complaints, then propose vague solutions.

???

>Your terminology escalation to "abuse" seems absurd to me

It was an analogy.

>white people in general seem to have done fine

Black people in the US are also doing far better than Black people in Africa or frankly pretty much any other country with a large Black population.




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