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sva_yesterday at 7:58 PM5 repliesview on HN

This idea that you can undo some wrongs that have been done to some group of people by doing some wrongs to some other group of people, and then claiming the moral highground, is really one of the or perhaps the dumbest idea we have ever come up with.


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kevinob11yesterday at 8:24 PM

The comment above says "uplifting" could you not counter some wrongs by doing some rights?

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eblumeyesterday at 8:58 PM

I don't know; we also grow corn for ethanol and add it to gas.

DesaiAshuyesterday at 10:33 PM

Spending money to give scholarships to people who are coming out of 300 years of tariff imposed poverty to access the same education as those who can easily afford to pay their food/housing costs in college is "the dumbest idea we have ever come up with" ?

Please recall we paid more in reparations to Germany post WW2 than we paid to India post-colonialism

We seem to not have much problem undo'ing the Nazis' wrongs with our money, why do we have a problem uplifting the Nigerians?

cyanydeezyesterday at 9:02 PM

yee old Billionaire trolley problem "If we do anything, one white dude with too much money might suffer"

cheschireyesterday at 8:24 PM

No child left behind