The Irish were the first slaves brought to the Americas.

You don't hear a lot about it because current day Irish aren't constantly crying about it.

How about they just let me keep the money I earn.

As if black people and liberals begging for reparations wasn't bad enough, now even white people and "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" conservatives agree with this bs. It's over for this country. Everyone's a whiny pathetic victimized pussy who doesn't wanna take accountability or acknowledge the past (white people) or take accountability for their future (minorities and liberals).

Sorry, bro, but I'm not accountable because some of your ancestors were to slow or too stupid to get away. That's on you.

I have no idea what my ancestors were doing back then. Probably swinming.

nietzsche talked about this, its all about pity and despising the strong. it just doesnt work anyway.

It's because middle class white people are sick of getting the shaft at every fkn turn when it comes to government taxes and social benefits while certain demographics have already been way dispraportionately taking from gov social benefits pools for decades.

I don't know for sure about all of them, but yeah the ones I'm aware of were early 20th century immigrants who were farmers (German, Danish, etc.)

Either both reparations are okay or none of them are. If the reparations is for 60 years of Affirmative Action, then there would be just as strong of a case for reparations for black people for the 100 years between the end of slavery and the Civil Rights movement where black people were not allowed to accrue capital or assets or even attend higher levels of education.

Reparations for either demographic is dumb and clearly a desperate political wedge issue now being peddled by a conservative. Now THAT is sad. Whatever happened to fiscal responsibility? I'd expect this behavior from liberals but now trump? The guy who's arguably the face of the GOP? Even if nothing becomes of it, the idea is already put in the open and now we'll probably see other conservatives advocating for it.

I guess this is what people mean when they say the GOP is just democrats from 20 years ago.

We get it op. You have white guilt because u live it around white people. So, u overcompensate by calling everyone racist

Funny how quickly the idea of reparations isn't so cool when you aren't going to be the one getting them.

Since I'm part English that I know about there's probably some Irish mixed in there as well...gimme them gibs.

The left went way too far with their vax mandates, trans children, and constant wokeism

The blowback is now becoming mainstream

Sounds like Trump is wanting to change how our Universities operate, with DEI initiatives, high costs, etc, and with that change returning moneys to those that have been harmed by lousy University policies, regardless of color.


"Colleges cost too much and offer too little value"

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/r...o-little-value

excerpt:


A substantial majority of Americans believe that a college degree isn’t worth the cost , and with good reason. Coddled colleges cost way too much money and often provide pathetically poor educations .

Much of the fault for this lies in bad government policies that encourage massive borrowing and tuition hikes. The government should get tougher, not easier, on future college loan repayment. The amount of government aid per student should be capped so as to prevent tuition increases. And massive university endowments should be taxed in some way.

First, the costs. A new report shows that the average annual cost of attending Ivy League universities is nearing $90,000 , whereas the average at private universities in general is nearly $52,000. For the Ivies, those costs outstrip the entire annual median household income by nearly $20,000. Even heavily subsidized in-state public college costs, at above $22,000, have been soaring .

To show the outlandish growth of costs, one should take inflation into account. In the school year 2000-2001, average in-state total costs (tuition, fees, board) was $8,418. Allowing for inflation adjustments, by school year 2020-2021, the equivalent cost would be about $13,326 – nearly $9,000 less than it actually is. Private college costs in 2021-2022, meanwhile, would be $13,000 lower if they had merely kept up with inflation since 2000. Worst, in terms of percentage increase above inflation, were the costs for out-of-state students to attend state universities, which from 2000 to 2020 rose by more than twice the inflation rate!

And that’s just since 2000. College costs far outstripped inflation in the 20 years before that as well.

The causes of these outlandish price hikes are numerous. Colleges have added administrative bureaucracy at an alarming rate , much of it federally subsidized. Colleges keep erecting more and more buildings , even as enrollment declines. (Why do fewer students need more buildings?) Even if national taxpayers fork over the money for these edifice complexes via congressionally directed pork-barrel grants (which happens all the time), the facilities-maintenance costs add substantially to university outlays.

And, finally, when student loans are plentiful and debts often forgiven, colleges can keep raising their prices because it’s “somebody else’s money” paying all the bills. The somebody else, of course, is the future generation of taxpayers, who will have to pay the piper whenever panic about the national debt finally overwhelms the system.

In other words, massive government subsidies encourage colleges to spend maniacally, without any downward pressure on costs.

Meanwhile, universities can keep building huge endowments without much incentive to use their nest eggs to keep tuition down. Harvard’s endowment of more than $49 billion amounts to more than $2 million per current student. Even state school systems have endowments — Texas A&M's is $18.24 billion, nearly $150,000 per student. To encourage colleges to actually use the endowments for the benefit of students, it might make sense to tax the endowments or donations to endowments that already exceed a certain size......

I’m polish I want reparations from Germany

Dude said nothing like that, OP. Did you even watch the video? I'm guessing not.

I descended from the slavic people, if anyone deserves reparations its us seeing as that is where the word originated

You owe reparations for the actions of your ancestors claiming the rights to the origin of the word, to those whose ancestors never had the same opportunity.

How dare you appropriate our name for your own use!

Irish are mega liberals and whine about everything (ded srs)

Weirdly based, considering who these posters are.

But yah, america has descended into full blown "gimme chit" populism. GOP doesn't give a fukk about conservatism anymore, any more than Dems give a fukk about liberalism. Its all just cold, shrewd "how can I get the most ppl to vote for me out of anger and victim mentality."

Gee, the left and liberals in general completely misconstrued something Donald Trump said and told us complete lies about it to try making him look bad? How weird and unexpected!!

Shiver me timbers means I sh*t myself.

Well hell yeah man how else is the grift gonna keep going?

LOL at everyone reacting to the 5-10 seconds of what he said at the end of the clip, instead of the meat of what he said which was to bring college costs down. I have kids and it would be nice if in a decade from now it doesn't cost $30K to attend an in-state university per year, or $120K per year at a private university. Call me crazy. Colleges have formed a cartel, and many have bloated jobs programs that they only use to spend down the extra money they have from student loans (debt). They're becoming as efficient as government jobs, where 5 people are working for every 2 persons needed.

While he's a great guy, I have an in-law who is administration at an Ivy League school and makes a very solid salary. If his job were gone tomorrow, zero students would be affected. It's likely the case for a couple hundred admin at that school alone. But hey, gotta pay those bloated jobs programs, so better hike up tuition again 6% like every year.

Sounds like trump is a potato.






Nothing new.

Love my Orange cheeto even more

Hypothetically speaking, how much money could a US citizen get away with once the reparations start rolling in?

It needs to be dispersed as a percentage of your net worth, to make it fair for everyone across the board.

I think a 10% bump in everyone's net worth sounds equitable.