Are We All Equal in Education and Rationality?

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To ber kind of assumes that people are educated and rational enough to make a decision. A lot of these pregnancies happen, you know, spontaneously, emotionally, on the whim, not thought out,. And this is why we have abortion. Women aren't getting abortions cause they like killing babies. It's that they can't afford it. The paper on this was titled hardness of life, not hardness of heart. But i just want to establish the philosophic principle that will refute the claim that it is caused by systemic racism. That is, there's nothing about a woman having, or a man or a woman having four or five or seven children that they can’t afford that is caus

In this conversation with Jason Hill based on his book What do White Americans Owe Black People? Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression, Shermer probes the philosopher on the arguments for and against reparations.

In this provocative and highly original work, philosophy professor Jason Hill explores multiple dimensions of race in America today, but most importantly, a black-white divide which has grown exponentially over the past decade.

Central to his thesis, Hill calls on black American leaders (and their white liberal sponsors) to escape from the cycle of blame and finger-pointing, which seeks to identify black failures with white hatred and indifference. This overblown narrative is promulgated by a phalanx of black nihilists who advocate the destruction of America and her institutions in the name of ending “whiteness.” Much of the black intelligentsia consists of these false prophets, and it is their poisonous ideology which is taught, uncontradicted, to students of all races. It is they who are responsible for the cultural depression blacks are suffering in today’s society.

Ultimately, the answer to “what do White Americans owe?” is not about the morality or practicality of reparations, affirmative action, or other redistributionist schemes. Hill rejects the collectivist premise behind the argument, instead couching notions of culpability, justice, and fairness as responsibilities of individuals, not arbitrary racial or ethnic groupings.