Posted on 05/05/2023 5:15:24 PM PDT by Libloather
As Republicans have become mired in MAGA radicalism, it has become standard operating procedure for them to parry criticism of their extremist tendencies by pointing across the partisan barricades and shouting, “They’re worse!” This often involves scanning the landscape for any lefty idea or proposal that sounds scary and attributing it to the entire Democratic Party. And lo and behold, it turns out if you say Democrats want to “defund the police” often enough, people will begin to believe it, even though (1) Democratic elected officials from Joe Biden down to the local dogcatcher have vociferously denied it and (2) the criminal-justice reformers who actually have talked about “defunding the police” were mostly proposing that functions remote from proper policing be shifted (along with the funding to pay for them) from police departments to social-services agencies.
Inspired by the effectiveness of such tactics, conservatives are always on the hunt for some phantom menace they can attribute to Democrats or (more vaguely) “the left.” They may hit the jackpot this weekend, as a state-appointed task force in California considers legislative recommendations for slavery reparations (which won’t be finalized until July 1).
The task-force report, spurred by the racial justice protests of 2020 and the product of several years of research, will be wide-ranging, documenting many decades of discrimination against descendants of slavery in California in areas ranging from housing, overincarceration, and denial of health benefits. Its recommendations will be for policy changes to prevent future discrimination, not simply reparations for individuals. The task force, moreover, is only calling for “down payments” on justified reparations, and it’s clear the legislature may reject cash awards altogether. But conservative media is already leaping to report scary-sounding figures based on estimates of actual economic damages to Black people, as in this Fox News piece:
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And I wonder why?! Sarc.
The task force is recommending payments of reparations for slavery.
It is true that the legislature has not appropriated money to pay these reparations yet. But it appears to be just a matter of time before they appropriate the funds and start the process of identifying people’s ancestry and then making the payments.
Considering the situation it is absurd for this guy to say that somehow the right wing is making this up or the right wing is imagining things. The right wing is not imagining things. The state of California has an official commission set up to make recommendations on reparations for slavery.
So I can see them all using “Ancestry.com to research to prove their families were slaves. This is a good DNA sample for the Feds to help find criminals.
That way the criminals will get free room and board.
Just like this:
Right: gas stoves will be banned if leftists have their way
Left: No way we will never ban gas stoves
NY Leftists: We just banned gas stoves.
Hey Eddie. Azho. Have you bass turds in New Yawk paid any “reparations” to the freeloaders yet?
Before joining New York, Kilgore was the principal blogger for the Washington Monthly, a weekly columnist for Talking Points Memo, and managing editor for the Democratic Strategist. He was previously a regular contributor on politics and elections to The New Republic and FiveThirtyEight and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. Earlier in his career, Kilgore was policy director for the Democratic Leadership Council, communications director for U.S. Senator Sam Nunn...
The blue states and blue cities are evidence of libtard policies that speak louder than words
Were not freaking out we are laughing out butts off knowing you can’t deliver the mail. We know how pissed off your dem planation slaves are going to be when the promised checks don’t show up.
Because you don’t have the money!
No bias there.
Er, um, I don't recall "us" saying Democrats want to defund the police. It was Democrats demanding, also occasionally screaming, that THEY wanted to defund the police.
It's comical, but typical, how Leftists are trying with every atom of their tiny minds to alter three-year-old history. Because much of it is now exploding in their faces.
Dear Leftists: We saw it, we lived through it, we remember it very well, and all of it is on the 'net. Your little game of "We didn't do that! It wasn't US!" is a miserable failure which -- true to form -- you just keep compounding.
The negative reaction to reparations triggers Left-Wing hysterics.
Just as we were imagining Senile was going to ban gas stoves. Just as we were imagining that those refusing vaccination would be kicked out of the military. We were imagining Senile would open the border with no effective border requirements. We were imagining that Senile would raise taxes on the middle class.
re: the first sentence
What does a leftist brain have to be “ mired in “ to believe that anything they’re told by the executive branch is actually true ?
Why do they think it makes sense for those who have never owned slaves to give reparations to those who have never been slaves?
Excuse me, I self identify as a former slave and demand money!
Just recently they accused conservatives of conspiracy mongering over the possible banning of gas stoves. Ask the people in NY about that. More and more conspiracy theories are turning into spoiler alerts
They will just take it from us in the red states. That’s how they roll.
California was a free state from the beginning.
No need for reparations when there were no slaves there.
There’s no good ending with this DNA mess - considering many of the feds are already criminals. The fraud will be enormous as the state will not have the thousands of personnel needed to process the claims, so CA has to have a bureaucracy for that too.
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