Background : at 1:20 - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ih2RLpJ1ikU&feature=share
we see Microsoft employees apologize to 20 Indigenous tribes for being in Seattle.
Please correct me if I am wrong - This is why I feel every American should be disgusted:
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The purpose of a sincere apology is promise future reparations of some kind
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Microsoft themselves has NO intention of paying these reparations (despite being in a perfect position to give back any land they feel guilty about)
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The expectation is that YOU will have to repay BIPOC to assuage Microsoft's guilt....
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If I wanted to be held responsible for historic crimes of my people I would go and live in North Korea - I hear they love that shit.
You're right about what they will do, but you're wrong about MS's reasoning for doing it. MS has no guilt. Guilt has nothing to do with the reparations push. The reparations push is purely to disempower the largest homogeneous political group, white middle class, that by and large holds little resentment towards other socio-political group in the American political landscape. Because of that the white middle class could be a unifying political power.
To combat that TPTB are doing everything they can to vilify the white middle class which will result in a mass transfer of wealth. The transfer of wealth is already on going since it is the white middle class who are the biggest tax payers. Every successful college applicant of color with poorer academic performs, diversity hire, every race specific non-competitive government & public corporation contract, every small business administration race specific non-competitive grant forces tens of thousands of more qualified and responsible white people put their lives and prosperity on hold, every illegal immigrant consumes 10's of thousands of dollars a year in government assistance and access to pubilc education and services......IT'S ALL A TRANSFER OF WEALTH FROM WHITES TO OTHER SOCIO-POLITICAL GROUPS. But eventually TPBP will come right out and most egregious take money form your accounts and hand it directly to poc's.
And when the white middle class can no longer ignore it, they will become the terrorists that the DHS and FBI has been painting them to be for the past 10 years....even while cities were looted and burned at the hands of BLM. Thus, their political power will be neutered, their mutual goodwill towards other groups destroyed, the distrust between the ever greater socio-political segmentation of the population will be complete.
Very insightful. What is TPTB?
So you don't think MS has guilt, but are doing it for other reasons.
It feels to me that the ultra wealthy billionaires at microsoft can see they are vulnerable to legitimate resentment and grievances from the middle class - so they protect themselves by diverting focus onto what I would call "imaginary grievances".
Because, like you say, the middle class (or even poor whites) will end up paying the price for all these apologies. (which I speculate are a form of IOU, but not one that MS will pay - one that they want 'other people' to pay)