Opposition to reparations stems from undeservingness beliefs, not cost or logistics

Evidence

The political scientist Tatishe M. Nteta, Provost Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has also conducted polling around reparations and observes, “When we ask people why they oppose, it’s not about the cost. It’s not about logistics. It’s not about the impossibility to place a monetary value on the impact of slavery. It is consistently this notion that the descendants of slaves do not deserve these types of reparations.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 510

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a pivotal empirical claim for the reader’s brief: if opposition is about deservingness, then the argument must win on moral desert, not cost-benefit. Worth verifying the polling basis.