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How is that different from the Saudi Royal family or king of Swaziland? The comparison was not to looting rulers but the other royals the article strangely cites as examples without mentioning the UK Royal family who's source of wealth is similar. Also what do you mean by 'acquired' wealth. Arguably the despots of today are just doing the same ('acquiring' land for future descendants through warfare and despotism)

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You don't see a difference between inheriting ill-gotten gains from several generations back and actively looting the country yourself?

If there is no difference, I'm afraid all white land-owners in America are going to need to return their land to the natives.

Maybe you mean "all non-Native American land-owners in America". I'm not sure why you single out white.

Because African Americans didn't get the chance to get in on the thievery angle, and most other races didn't come in significant volume early enough to have the chance to in numbers significant enough to be worth mentioning?

> If there is no difference, I'm afraid all white land-owners in America are going to need to return their land to the natives.

I'm glad you admitted that there is an argument to be made there.

> You don't see a difference between inheriting ill-gotten gains from several generations back and actively looting the country yourself?

What's the difference? Why don't they return the stolen property?

> If there is no difference, I'm afraid all white land-owners in America are going to need to return their land to the natives.

Why shouldn't they? Have you heard of native title?

And those natives would need to return it to other natives, who would need to return it to other natives, and so on for a thousand or so generations.

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