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When family trauma makes you feel unworthy of justice

My grandmother was in an internment camp and my family never got anything back, but I feel guilty asking for reparations when other people had it worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The hierarchy of suffering creates false guilt that prevents legitimate claims for redress.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical and economic case?”

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