OK. A lot of folks are missing the real tactic behind calls for reparations & falling right into the Left's trap.

I'll explain this one more time, so read carefully.

The Left dominates the culture. They maintain their dominance by controlling the moral high ground.

They retain the moral high ground by holding public morality plays where they invite Conservatives in the crowd to come up on stage and play the pre-scripted villain role.

Demands for reparations are really casting calls for Conservatives to don the black hat in the Left's morality play.
They fully expect you to reject reparations & launch into indignant economic arguments. They count on it. It's the rhetorical equivalent of donning devil horns.

Remember: the Left is a death cult. A cult can exist just fine w/o a god, but it absolutely needs a devil.
These cultists define themselves in opposition to "Nazis-their faith's version of demons. Calling out, denouncing & inflicting suffering on "Nazis" informs their identity.

So when they say, "We need reparations to heal the sin of racism," & you say, "Come pry the $$ from my cold dead hand," all you're doing is giving them a target to rally around & affirm their identity.

But if you say, "OK, how much to stamp 'PAID IN FULL' on America's debt of slavery?" It throws a wrench in the works.

They have a script you're expected to follow, & when you don't, they have no response. It ruins their ritual.

If you're lucky, they'll say, "Money can't atone for the sin of racism!"

Then YOU take the moral high ground & point out that they're bad-faith actors.

Think rhetorical & moral, not dialectical & economic.

Some of you still don't get it.

I'm not seriously suggesting paying reparations. None of this is literal. It is rhetorical.

The point is to:
1) Stop playing the Left's game by the Left's rules.
2) Show normies that calls for reparations are bad-faith demands for tribute.