Posted on 08/22/2020 5:17:47 PM PDT by blam
Who Should Pay? Who Should Get?
As we all know, talk of reparations for injustice is everywhere. But here’s a headline, appearing in the British Spectator magazine, that hit home to Virgil, old Roman that he is: “Italy owes Wales reparations for the wrongs of the Roman Empire.” The author, one Lloyd Evans—an impeccable Welsh name, that—declared:
Let me add my voice to the clamour on behalf of this island’s indigenous Celtic people. My family are from Llanelli in Carmarthenshire and I believe that my compatriots have an excellent case to make against the Roman Empire.
Yes, Evans said he wants reparations for the Roman invasion of Great Britain, launched by Julius Caesar in 55 BC; it was a bloody business, leading to the subjugation of the island’s Celtic inhabitants, including those in Wales.
Indeed, Evans went further in his demand for compensation; he recalled that later on, in the 5th and 6th centuries, AD, the Welsh were once again conquered, victims of “Anglo-Saxon aggression.” That is, the Angles and the Saxons, two tribes coming across the sea from Germany, drove out the Romans but still kept the Celts in bondage. So Evans’ logic would suggest that the Celts today have a claim against not only Italy and Germany, but also, of course, against descendants of past invaders still living with them—quite likely, after all these centuries, in their own families—in what’s now the United Kingdom.
Yet then, to Virgil’s great relief, it turns out that Evans was kidding in his demand for reparations. As he put it, “The idea of ‘you owe me money because your ancestors wronged my ancestors’ doesn’t sound like justice to me. It has the air of a ghost-story.”
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Fat people! Skinny people! Christians! Non-Christians! Jews! Tall people! Short people! Old people! Stupid people! People with allergies! People with big feet! Nerds! Wallflowers! Everybody's a victim!Some of us are victimised more than once! Can we get multiple reparations?
As a blind, albino, dwarf, black, differently abled lesbian womyn, I am owed at least a trillion dollars.
(Nice photo of Portland. ;)
Left-handed people are REALLY victimized.
I’m waiting for the uprising of the FR Zotted.
Everyone was oppressed by someone! We all deserve reparations!
If white is so bad, let’s all be black. It doesn’t matter what you look like, it’s how you feel right?
Solution to reparations, we will pay reparations if you denounce your citizenship and agree to move elsewhere never to return
And should the USA pay reparations to the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? And the other Japanese and German cities that were bombed in WWII? Berlin was a mess!
And what about World War I?
Come to think of it, EVERYBODY needs to pay reparations to EVERYBODY!
That picture was of the massacre of the Huguenots! Some of my ancestors were French Huguenots. The Catholics owe us bigtime! Hey, my wife’s Catholic!
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