Ta-Nehisi Coates will vote for Bernie Sanders, reparations or no reparations

[milliefink]

[the_borderer]

@nemomen

their planned UN takeover, mass-scale gun confiscation, government-worship,

Does that mean that the conservatives have stopped labelling me as a liberal? Or do my political beliefs just break their brains?

I will admit to the destroying capitalism bit though.

[GulliverFoyle]

@the_borderer

I will admit to the destroying capitalism bit though.

If by destruction you mean apotheosis, then well done!

[robulus]

@pjcamp

The ONLY possible reason for turning them off altogether is to prevent readers being able to see information the author disagrees with.

Says you.

Mitchell & Webb: Alien invasion

[GulliverFoyle]

Given was a very poor choice of word on my part. My point is that I know of no parallel to those sovereignty rights, however they came about, where African Americans are concerned.

[Mindysan33]

Okay, how about read Coates argument and see what he’s saying. It’s not just about slavery. Why not see what he’s saying, which is not just about slavery, but about the totality of the African American experience in America.

[enso]

@failquail

I find the whole concept of reparations so long after the fact such an odd one to fixate on. Look at the issue for more than a few seconds and it’s beyond obvious it’s completely unworkable.

Is this your considered rebuttal to Coates three pieces on this laying out his case?

[enso]

@pjcamp

The ONLY possible reason for turning them off altogether is to prevent readers being able to see information the author disagrees with.

Or because comments on the Internet are completely broken (as the popular phrase “Don’t read the comments!” attests).

[Mindysan33]

Well, you know white people don’t even have to read the arguments before making a rebuttal to a truth-claim, didn’t you know? ESPECIALLY on issues of race… /s

[the_borderer]

@GulliverFoyle

If by destruction you mean apotheosis, then well done!

I didn’t say I was any good at it.

[wrecksdart]

@pucksr

It doesn’t just seem monumental, it seems stupid.

“Seems” being a word that is most abused of late. Feel free to skip over your thought of reparations being stupid and straight into the substantive portion that’s of any fucken use.

[wrecksdart]

@pjcamp

It was hasty, sloppy, offensive, and the followup article made several statements that were provably false.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a system whereby we can “cut” a section of a book, essay, article, or video, and then “paste” it into another place where its merits can be discussed in particular?

What am I saying? That can’t be done. So let’s just stick to empty rhetoric.

I hear there’s an “internet” in development that could help with this, but that sounds dumb and should be scrapped immediately

[NickSay]

I know an easy way to pay for reparations!

But how do we convince America that settling it’s massive debt to African Americans is some kind of invasion of destabilization of an impoverished country…