"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Punishment is almost entirely the rationale for reparations, whether it is
stated explicitly or not. The honest folks admit this, the disingenuous
don't.

That's both ad hominen (it's about the merits of the speakers rather than
about the merits of their stated ideas) and entirely unsupported by any
evidence that you've offered.

You're proclaiming (without offering any evidence) that "Hey, they say X
(nonpunitive rationale) but they must really mean Y (punitive
rationale)"--where (conveniently enough for your position) it just so
happens that Y is totally silly (as both sides in fact agree), and thus much
easier to refute than X.

--Gary