The Case for Reparations Is Officially Closed

As with all things on the Left, their logic — and I use that term very loosely here — is baffling. The career criminal who stabbed a guy in the park is not responsible for his actions, because reasons. But somehow I, and my sons, are responsible for every bad thing that happened throughout the history of the Western world again, because reasons.

But I am also a big fan of holding the Left to its own standards, no matter how twisted and illogical they are. That’s why I had to laugh when Will Chamberlain turned the reparations argument on its ear. See, Abdul El-Sayed — who got walloped among black voters in Detroit — is pandering to them by calling for reparations. Chamberlain, wisely, pointed out that using El-Sayed’s own logic, Muslims owe reparations for 9/11.

I totally agree. American Muslims like Abdul need to pay reparations to the families of the victims of 9/11 and the soldiers who lost their lives in the war on terror https://t.co/gkAiSM1qLm

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 25, 2026

Pay up, Abul.

Mehdi Hasan then came in to completely blow up pretty much every leftist argument for collective guilt and blame.

Nothing to see here, just a conservative pundit blaming all Muslims in America for 9/11.

Imagine if a leftist pundit blamed all Jews in America for Gaza.

Will we see heated condemnations of this racist freak, à la Piker? Of course not. https://t.co/ZTOkHKorA6

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 26, 2026

I get that playing dumb is Hasan’s thing, but it’s clear Chamberlain was applying El-Sayed’s own logic to a different group. But more to the point, there are many left-wing pundits who blame Jews for everything from bad weather to the non-existent “genocide” in Gaza. Hasan Piker has repeatedly threatened American Jews for supporting Israel and its “genocide,” saying they’ll be subjected to violence if they don’t denounce the one Jewish safe space in the world.

But more than that, any time there’s a school shooting, somehow my guns — which are sitting in my closet and my gun safe — are to blame. I have “blood on my hands” if I don’t turn them over to the state in exchange for a weak promise of police protection. As I’ve noted before, local police really had no interest in doing anything when a guy was caught on video trying to break into my house early one morning. Even after I shared the video on the NextDoor app and the suspect was tentatively identified, police said it wasn’t a crime because he didn’t damage my windows.

Just this past week, white people and the Trump administration were somehow to blame for the fact that Gary, Indiana, and Memphis, Tennessee, were without power following storms. Never mind the fact that thugs in Gary were literally shooting at utility workers, of course. Ignore that both cities are run by Democrats who couldn’t arrange a two-car funeral. Someone else is to blame.

So either collective blame goes all ways, or it goes no ways.