What human right did transgender people lose on account of the campaign she funded?

I think being an idiot doesn’t warrant this inane reaction.

She is not a criminal in any way shape or form.

How about people worry about not giving money to actual criminals like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, etc?

For fuck’s sake… Rowling is an idiot and I totally disagree with her, but let’s not pretend she’s Hitler or something.

I hate these fabricated pearl clutching controversies.

Great. He’s not just a horrible person. He’s also completely deranged.

God is also supposedly an all-knowing being, while at the same time excuses his shitty decisions and faulty creations with not being responsible for men’s actions and decisions, and also free will is a thing.

Pick a lane. Either god is all-knowing and knows what every single human being who ever lived/lives/will live did/will do in their lifetimes and free will is an illusion, or he’s not an all-knowing being.

Or… hear me out on this… He’s not real! Crazy, I know.

But… But… The big orange bozo said the war was over already.

Or maybe injecting even more AI into their products? People seem to looooove that.

Or maybe making an even shittier OS by firing more engineers, and replace them with terrible AI slop code?

That’s an understatement.

no, but “westerner” is clearly a racial epithet.

Oh, wait. I forgot racism is only valid against non-whites. /s

I’m definitely not against giving more money in these programs, or widen their scope. I do think we have a moral obligation to help, in general. If you are better off, that is.

But where do reparations stop? There’s hardly a place on this planet who wasn’t taken advantage of, or hasn’t taken advantage of another.

I am keen on social programs. Social welfare programs, which in fact I consider fundamental in a developed society.

I just don’t see reparations as a good social program.

All the downvotes you got were telling you much of a child you are. This latest attitude just goes to prove it.

Block away petulant kid

I’m against reparations because, as you said, it would be unfair on both sides.

The people that would be taxed (the majority) probably never benefitted from it, at least not directly. I can give you an example. On my father’s side we made a family tree reaching all the way to the 17th century, and there were no rich landowners or noblemen. It’s highly unlikely they owned slaves. Should my family pay for reparations?

Now, if you can accurately trace slave owning people and their descendants are still wealthy, then by all means…

What I’m saying is it can’t be a blanket measure.

Also, if we europeans must pay, then the arabs better pay up as well.

And then you have the question of who receives the money. Africa is rife with corruption. I wouldn’t want the money to go to some corrupt government official. But how would you trace the exact people or families who should receive the money? What if the family who was enslaved mixed with the family/tribe/kingdom of the slavers? Then what?

I’m absolutely for helping Africa, but it just can’t be this fantasy notion of reparations because it’s not feasible.

Well, sure. But a lot of developed nations already have a lot of programs aimed at doing that.

Also, as someone has said somewhere in this discussion, who exactly would receive reparations? It’s not exactly an easy thing to ascertain.

That’s an entirely different point. But they were already slavers before the europeans increased demand.

And which part of what I said is false?

What is strange is how you wanted to try to pass the narrative that the europeans were the first to do chattel slavery, when they absolutely weren’t, and also were the ones to not only outlaw it, but enforce the outlaw.

But keep trying to change history

You’re right. The trans-saharan slaves only had to walk from Africa to the middle east.

So much better.

That’s not racist at all

How convenient you chose to ignore the exact paragraph from that link that touched very lightly on what I said:

“In stark contrast, the trans-Saharan slave trade introduced chattel slavery where enslaved individuals were the property of their enslavers with no rights and their status was inherited by their offspring. This system stripped individuals of any agency and autonomy which reduced them to mere commodities.”

Arabs enslaved millions for a much longer period of time (all the way up to the late 20th century), raped the women, neutered the men, literally denying milions of a future generation from existing.

But I don’t see anyone asking them for compensations.