Argentina's history of slavery: should there be reparations?

[sergio]

Just to give you an idea about the argentinian thought process, nestor took down the portraits of the the de facto presidents from 76 to 83, like that never happened. These idiots can't cope with what happened 40 years ago and you expect them to recognize that there was slavery in this wonderful peace loving human rights peronist country?

One can hope.

 

[artigas]

Reparations are an excellent idea, just and fair! It is obvious to any non-racist, thinking human that any Argentine of African or Indigenous decent has been historically oppressed and they and their descendants should be fairly compensated by the Argentine government for the historic pain, suffering and exploitation by Argentina and the descendants of their exploiters, primarily Argentines of European decent.

However, there is even a greater injustice that should concurrently be addressed with reparations, namely the historic and ongoing exploitation of all native Argentines by rapacious so called foreign "expats", who have taken advantage of and exploited the native Argentine labour, resources and national currency for their own selfish ends.

Is not every Argentine property occupied by an expat neo-conquistador with their weaponised and privileged “hard” currency one less property available to a dispossessed native Argentine? Have you not seen the resulting homeless Argentines forced to live in poverty on the streets of their own capital?

Not content to force Argentina to export its best beef, wine and the other fruits of their labour to satiate the unreasonable and anti-humanitarian demands of the international debt vultures who forced the Argentine people to submit to their debt enslavement, the so called “expat” colonizers siphon off the best of remaining goods and services left in the country directly from the mouths of the hungry native population.

It pains me to even mention the fate of the many unfortunate individual Argentines trapped and forced into menial servitude as maids, doormen, parking attendants, gardeners and other below living wage slaves for the exploitive expat class. Even the very culture of Argentina is colonized, with asados and milongas tokenized by culturally appropriative expats and native Argentines herded into foreign language schools and forced to adopt to alien foreign customs such as veganism, reggaeton and yoga.

There is only one just solution to this history of exploitation and abuse, expats must compensate the Argentines for their complicit role in Argentina's historic oppression! Why not cut out the middle-man and have the expat community directly compensate the most exploited of the exploited, namely those Argentines of African or Indigenous descent or other historically marginalized minorities such as the transgendered community. Every right thinking expat should recognize their own complicity and fragility and pledge publicly to directly contribute financially to righting these historic injustices! Its only fair and just!

 

[camel]

Reparations are an excellent idea, just and fair! It is obvious to any non-racist, thinking human that any Argentine of African or Indigenous decent has been historically oppressed and they and their descendants should be fairly compensated by the Argentine government for the historic pain, suffering and exploitation by Argentina and the descendants of their exploiters, primarily Argentines of European decent.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your argument for reparations. But I want to call out what you've done in your first paragraph. You say, "It is obvious to any non-racist, thinking human...". In other words, your premise is that if one doesn't agree with you, then they are (1) racist, and (2) non-thinking. It's not a very good way to debate.

The rest of your post may have good points, but I didn't read it after your first paragraph.

 

[artigas]

Thank you Camel, I fully agree with your point!

 

[Redpossum]

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your argument for reparations. But I want to call out what you've done in your first paragraph. You say, "It is obvious to any non-racist, thinking human...". In other words, your premise is that if one doesn't agree with you, then they are (1) racist, and (2) non-thinking. It's not a very good way to debate.

The rest of your post may have good points, but I didn't read it after your first paragraph.

It's sarcasm, eh?

 

[sergio]

Reparations are an excellent idea, just and fair! It is obvious to any non-racist, thinking human that any Argentine of African or Indigenous decent has been historically oppressed and they and their descendants should be fairly compensated by the Argentine government for the historic pain, suffering and exploitation by Argentina and the descendants of their exploiters, primarily Argentines of European decent.

However, there is even a greater injustice that should concurrently be addressed with reparations, namely the historic and ongoing exploitation of all native Argentines by rapacious so called foreign "expats", who have taken advantage of and exploited the native Argentine labour, resources and national currency for their own selfish ends.

Is not every Argentine property occupied by an expat neo-conquistador with their weaponised and privileged “hard” currency one less property available to a dispossessed native Argentine? Have you not seen the resulting homeless Argentines forced to live in poverty on the streets of their own capital?

Not content to force Argentina to export its best beef, wine and the other fruits of their labour to satiate the unreasonable and anti-humanitarian demands of the international debt vultures who forced the Argentine people to submit to their debt enslavement, the so called “expat” colonizers siphon off the best of remaining goods and services left in the country directly from the mouths of the hungry native population.

It pains me to even mention the fate of the many unfortunate individual Argentines trapped and forced into menial servitude as maids, doormen, parking attendants, gardeners and other below living wage slaves for the exploitive expat class. Even the very culture of Argentina is colonized, with asados and milongas tokenized by culturally appropriative expats and native Argentines herded into foreign language schools and forced to adopt to alien foreign customs such as veganism, reggaeton and yoga.

There is only one just solution to this history of exploitation and abuse, expats must compensate the Argentines for their complicit role in Argentina's historic oppression! Why not cut out the middle-man and have the expat community directly compensate the most exploited of the exploited, namely those Argentines of African or Indigenous descent or other historically marginalized minorities such as the transgendered community. Every right thinking expat should recognize their own complicity and fragility and pledge publicly to directly contribute financially to righting these historic injustices! Its only fair and just!

In reality the only native Argentines are the indigenous people, not the descendants of Italians, Spaniards etc.

 

[Redpossum]

In reality the only native Argentines are the indigenous people, not the descendants of Italians, Spaniards etc.

Honestly, me chupa un tremendo huevo. The past is in the past. The sins of the fathers, and all that.

 

[Renzi]

In reality the only native Argentines are the indigenous people, not the descendants of Italians, Spaniards etc.

From the OED:

Native: A person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not.

 

[camel]

It's sarcasm, eh?

If it is, I totally missed it.

 

[mc kenna]

So... who do we pay then? the indians or the blacks or the transexuals indians and or blacks and what about the white transexuals?what if you are a transexual expat? does one cancels the other? and we call it even? lol yeah that'll be the day