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Why some people acknowledge historical benefits but not historical harms

My neighbor keeps saying slavery was 150 years ago and people should get over it but his family still owns the land his great-grandfather homesteaded.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Selective memory about the past allows people to claim inherited advantages while denying inherited responsibilities.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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