To: i-node who wrote (202976 ) 6/23/2021 12:48:27 PM From: Lane3 Read Replies (1) | Respond to You're the one promoting the idea. If it's the most stupid discussion, then that's because I never once suggested anything like "paying cash to those who were not involved." And yet you're still claiming that I did. That's the problem with compensation and reparation and all that. It's like looking for your keys under the street lamp because that's the only place you could see them well enough were they there. There's no way to trace back to calculate what everybody is owed. So you're left to do something clumsy or do nothing. So much better to not have screwed them in the first place. Message 33369964 I have not deviated from that. You do not read what I write. You imagine what you expect me to have written, claim I wrote it, and ignore me when tell you that you have created a strong man and suggest you go back and reread. I warned you off of green eyeshades and your prism, which is because the former is about dollars and cents and the latter is from the vantage point of pinning the tail on the debtor. You've gotten yourself in a box where everything is about you writing a check to some Black person and a degenerate one, to boot. That is your context and you are framing my words incorrectly. Think outside the box. Broadly there are remuneration, reparation, compensation, reconciliation, reconstruction, apology, and whatever to work with in settling a debt. First step is to acknowledge the debt. Next step is to quit exclusively blaming the victim going forward. Message 33370376 Yet a half dozen posts later you haven't budged off your straw man. Did you read the above? If not, why not? If so, why did it not make a dent?
