It seems to me that offering proper reperations would actually be inverse to the interests of both sides today. If agreed-upon reperations were paid, then victimized groups could no longer claim disenfranchisement or, at the very least, demand any more payments. At the same time, opposing groups could use the act of reperations as a final, one-and-done matter and bring up that reperations had already been paid in-full and agreed-upon by all groups if more was ever asked.
Beyond that, though, I don't know if reperations are even deserved. True, infrastructure was left in many ex-colonies, but much of it is inadequate for proper economic growth, and many atrocities and programs meant to control or oppress populations did far more than the occupiers did good.
This tharoor guy comes up with some pretty compelling points.
Britain's wealth is arguably owed to India, whereas India is still recovering from colonialism today.
Gavin Clark
*Tharoor*
Jonathan Morgan
fugg vaccines and hygiene n shiet GIVE GIBS
Alexander Bennett
We don't owe anyone a penny, stop being ridiculous.
That Europeans should be made to apologise - pay even - for things the other races would happily have done themselves should they have wielded the power to do so, is self-evidently absurd.
Lincoln Cox
Fucking hate Indians. Stupid subhuman savages.
Ryder Gomez
They brought civilization to you savages. That's your reparations.
Dominic Sullivan
His book about this stuff was garbage, full of howlers and shit research.
Juan Ramirez
A few million Europeans were taken as slaves to North Africa. Villages in Ireland and Cornwall were virtually emptied of the population by Moorish slavers. Morocco, here's the bill ... No cheques, cash only please.
Carter Watson
I take it they're going to rip up all the railway tracks forced upon them by the evil colonisers?
