Remember when Salon offered intelligent, well-thought-out arguments? Yeah, neither do we. Here’s a recent offering from the online mag rag:
The glaring limits of the Civil Rights Act: Why we desperately need to redistribute wealth http://t.co/FTllRTElKB
— Salon (@Salon) April 14, 2014
Oh, this should be good.
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/455748799752065024
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/455749376158076929
Check out writer Matt Bruenig doing his best to justify redistribution of “wealth along racial lines,” facts and logic be damned:
As Thomas Piketty’s groundbreaking book “Capital in the 21st Century” has detailed: wealth has a tendency in a capitalist economy to concentrate into the hands of a few and travel down generations through gifts and inheritances. Even if racism were wiped out tomorrow and equal treatment became the norm, it would never cease being the case that the average white person has more wealth than the average black person. We could equalize everything else in society, and racial wealth inequality–plus all of the political power disparities that accompany such a thing–would continue into perpetuity.
Thus, those actually serious about righting the wrongs of enslavement and Jim Crow apartheid must support more drastic leveling efforts. Beefed up anti-discrimination, which is both necessary and good, will not be enough. Ideally, we could work towards reparations in the form of redistributing wealth along racial lines. With that an unlikely possibility though, we can at least think about ways to redistribute wealth more generally from those with wealth to those without it, something that would have a similar, albeit more attenuated, effect as reparations given who the wealthy and non-wealthy happen to be.
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Serious, you guys.
This dishonest piece of garbage from @Salon is par for the course for Salon http://t.co/6B9hpObwij
— Brian Lerch (@bdlerch) April 14, 2014
Oh, Salon … you’re so predictable!
https://twitter.com/BKudron/status/455749374002212864
https://twitter.com/Thefoulfellow/status/455754212035416064
Honestly, who reads @Salon and thinks “this is smart stuff”?
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) April 14, 2014
Asked and answered. RT @TheBrandonMorse: Honestly, who reads @Salon and thinks “this is smart stuff”? pic.twitter.com/A523yWNjzf
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) April 14, 2014
Heh.
@BKudron @hboulware @Salon Fidel Castro is brimming with pride.
— C. Irwin (@Bookwormdearlor) April 14, 2014
https://twitter.com/coolhandschlute/status/455752205371310081
You never go full commie. I'm lookin' at you @Salon.
— Kelly (@flyoverangel) April 14, 2014
For the record, Salon, we prefer to stick with what works:
https://twitter.com/ArmedAndPolite/status/455753289519599616
We like the sound of that.
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