Is There a Rhetorical Justification for Reparations?

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i prefer the constructive view, and it basicly just starts from the historical points i just mentioned. We're talking about the construction process that built this world, which explains who has what stuff,. both good stuff like wealth, and bad stuff like pollution. And so the right way to think about reparations for that is to build something else that will distribute the costs and benefits of that construction process in a way that responds to justice.

Olúfẹmi Táíwò is a philosopher and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He is the author of Reconsidering Reparations, and his latest book is Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Olúfẹmi Táíwò discuss the difference between identifying the wrongs of the past and charting a road for progress, why we shouldn’t shy away from pursuing difficult political goals, and how we can better build movements around shared interests.

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