Eligibility verification must guard against mass frivolous challenges
Evidence
For added protection, the government could also approach the claims process as it did the DC Compensated Emancipation Act, but instead of printing every claimant’s name in the newspaper, they could provide a searchable database of all Americans who identify as black. If a nonblack person claims to be black, someone can challenge them. Pretending to be black would come with penalties, which could be civil and/or criminal. Penalties would also apply if someone falsely challenges a black person on the list. The approach that recent book bans have taken across the country, where a few people are responsible for requesting the majority of book bans from local libraries and schools, cannot be allowed if this process is to be successful. We cannot have one person striking down every black person’s claim. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 542
Categorization
- SEED: The book-ban comparison is a fresh contemporary analogy worth developing in a piece about who gets to contest eligibility in rights regimes.
- XREF: connects to: A reparations commission should interpret eligibility generously — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 541; Crisis agreements require both a stable solution pattern and verifiable, cheat-proof monitoring — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 575; Credentialing rules built to ensure competence now function as trade barriers. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence:…, 575 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A reparations commission should interpret eligibility generously — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 541; Crisis agreements require both a stable solution pattern and verifiable, cheat-proof monitoring — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 575; Credentialing rules built to ensure competence now function as trade barriers. — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence:…, 575 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- A reparations commission should interpret eligibility generously
#complicates(0.76) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 541