The Case Against Reparations - Nigel Biggar

Nigel Biggar CBE is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. He holds a B.A. in Modern History from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Christian Theology & Ethics from the University of Chicago. He was appointed C.B.E. “for services to Higher Education” in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
His most recent books are Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), What’s Wrong with Rights? (2020), In Defence of War (2013), and Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2014). In the press he has written articles for the Financial Times, the (London) Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the (Glasgow} Herald, the Irish Times, Standpoint, The Critic, The Article, Unherd and Quillette.
He served on the Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians (London) from 2000 to 2014, the Royal Society’s Working Group on People and the Planet from 2010 to 2012, and the Pontifical Academy for Life from 2017 to 2022. He now chairs the board of trustees of the Free Speech Union.
He has lectured at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London; the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham; the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg; the US Military Academy, West Point; and the National Defense University, Washington, DC.
His hobbies include visiting battlefields. In 1973 he drove from Scotland via Iran and Afghanistan to India. And in 2015 and 2017 he trekked across the mountains of central Crete in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh-Fermor and his comrades, when they abducted General Kreipe in April-May 1944.
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[@rachelsanger8629]

Great stuff, thanks.

[@MA-go7ee]

Interesting stuff as usual. So glad there is a push back to the false orthodoxy that seems to have prevailed in most academia.

[@dorothyramser7805]

And the academics concerned know that they are pushing a false narrative for political reasons. We must all take part in the push back and give fact based comments in youtube videos peddling disinformation.

[@dorothyramser7805]

@@willrobb5577 Don't forget black studies...

[@TellTheTruth_and_ShameTheDevil]

Unfortunately only a recap of a argument in 'Colonialism'. Thanks for hosting this great scholar anyway.

[@trevorfuller1078]

Make a study comparing the economies today of three (3) West African countries & three (3) contemporary Caribbean countries in 2023-US$ yardstick-terms of each of these following countries’ GDP, Average Incomes per capita, the Gini & HDI Indices of in this example; Gambia, Sierra Leone & Nigeria in West Africa & Bahamas, Jamaica & Trinidad in the Caribbean!! Then we could perhaps see some of the important, real, historical & residual & ongoing social, economic & political after effects that the TransAtlantic Slavery & Plantation Agriculture has had respectively on all of these countries concerned in this example here?!! It might make some relevant, surprising & interesting reading??

[@peteferguson518]

I didn't know that the reparation conversation existed in Britain. As far as the US is concerned, I believe the US government owes reparations for Jim Crow, or at least that it's more feasable than for slavery. Also, I'm a socialist and I see this concept of reparation as a liberal attempt do give blacks a fair chance within capitalism whereas my opinion is that capitalism is the one thing that gets in the way of seriously egalitarian and truly colorblind society

[@lt8395]

Good vid

[@trevorfuller1078]

What are the current comparisons in both gdp or average salaries terms per capita in 2023-US$ Rates, between individual countries in Africa & the Caribbean, such as Gambia, Ghana & Nigeria with Bahamas, Jamaica & Trinidad?? I’m sure it would be interesting to ascertain & find the true results of such comparisons!!

[@TheCheckerboardfloorpodcast]

Mayonnaise babble!!

[@newjerseyselfdefense6199]

To compare Barbados to Nigeria is dumb because what would Nigeria have been had it NOT been colonized or if the economic trade between Europe and the continent been mutually beneficial. I might as well stop the video right now - because this is just going to go down the rabbit hole of intellectual dishonesty and false equivalences.

[@robertevans1516]

Your argument is specious and weak from the outset, by admitting that reparations were accurate and understandably due for European Jews harmed by Germany actions, immediately after the war and harm ended. Yet, when Africans sought immediately to be compensated, they were unrighteous Ly denied, the powers having used a constant rationale not to pay their debt to my forefathers, as their Son, I am here to address this righteous claim again for them and myself.

[@EvropaAeternvm]

By this logic the argument you’re making is as well. For one the holocaust has survivors alive today, the Atlantic slave trade doesn’t, as you yourself admit. The holocaust was far worse than the Atlantic slave trade and the use of slave labour during the war was far worse than the Atlantic slave as most of the slaves labour under the Nazis were intentionally worked to death. Slavery reparations always focuses on nations that purchased the slaves such as America, Britain, France but never the nations who sold them as slaves in the first place, due to the fact they were African nations. The powers, such as, America who near bankrupted itself to end slavery in a war, the British who called for its global abolition and found the toughest resistance to this drive from within Africa. The fact you even mentioned yourself in relation to slavery is telling, you were never a slave, you’ve never suffered anything to warrant anything. All this shows to anyone watching is an attempt by weak people to manipulate their ancestors memory for their own financial gain.