!@#$%! You have a remarkable knack for avoiding the question and fudging the issue with red herrings
The points you raise on reparations by the german government were for genocide not slavery
The payments by the US government over japanese-american prisoners of war was over unlawful imprisonment, not slavery
My examples were slavery, yours werent even even in the same ballpark
Judging by your logic I will assume you have no clue as to the difference between genocide and slavery, as you appear to think they are the same
You fail to answer the point about treating everyone the equally and employing on merit
Instead you attempt to dress up the same old tired political rhetoric that there is some merit in putting someone as dumb as a rock in a job over someone who can actually do it quite effectively in order to fill a quota
What an efficient way to run a company/country
Positive discrimination also basically tells people that their ethnicity is a handicap
"You are black/brown/yellow/pink/blue/purple and are therefore handicapped and the only way you will get a job is if we tell people to employ you on the basis of the colour of your skin"
And that isnt racist as well as demeaning?
You stated "the fact is that there are still a lot of ignorant racists out there who continue trying to segregate and discriminate on the basis of
skin color,", thats exactly what affirmative action is, discrimination on the basis of
skin colour
So the people who implement affirmative action are also ignorant racists by your definition
As for people banging on about reparations, the only people I see carping on are a small number of political extremists in the UK and the odd Chinese politician trying to make political capital out of the sino-japan war
We abolished slavery here way before the US, in the early part of the 19th century, that isnt exactly recent times either
How far back do we go before we start and/or stop paying reparations?
Do we exclude women from paying reparations to the "families" of former slaves as they didnt have the vote and therefore had no say as to whether slavery was legal or illegal?
More to the point, why arent the people bleating about reparations for themselves not shouting from the rooftops about the slavery in africa that is going on as you are reading this?
Why is noone seeking reparations from the tribes in africa who still exist today who captured, emslaved and sold their fellow africans to white europeans?
Slavery, bigotry, discrimination whether against or in favour of ethnic groups have no place in society
Treat everyone equally, employ on the basis of merit, and keep your red herrings to yourself
They just make your postings smell fishy