The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.
The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.
The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.
Countries like the UK have long rejected calls to pay reparations, saying today’s institutions cannot be held responsible for past wrongs.
Not for nothing but many many different people have been enslaved, to this very day.
True. But if you knew anything about how other slaves were kept vs the way African slaves were treated beyond this dog whistle sentence you’d probably stop repeating it.
Or you’d repeat it more often and harder because repeating it is intentional
All slavery is evil.
Ya no shit sherlock. But recognizing that chattel slavery of the transatlantic slave trade was especially heinous does not mean you"re ok with any other form of slavery. And playing whataboutism whenever the transatlantic slave trade is brought is a dog whistle that emboldens bigots
got it. a little bit of a thing happened to a whole variety of people so we can safely ignore the huge injustice that was forced upon an entire continent because these things are somehow equal.
Putting word in people’s mouths doesn’t reinforce your point
That’s not putting words in people’s mouths. It’s a rhetorical technique called “reductio ad absurdio” which means to takes an argument to its extreme until it become ridiculous, thereby exposing its flaws.
Slavery happened to whole peoples in multiple places. Rome enslaved peoples from all over europe. Slave traders from Europe and America didn’t introduce Africa to slavery. Africa was already fighting wars and enslaving each other across the entire continent. That is where the slave trade came from. They enslaved europeans if they got caught there. They had slaves to sell and Europeans found that they wanted to use them. It was a global problem and any peoples left in Africa are just as guilty of it as any European or American. Which is to say, not at all, because all of those people have been dead for two generations.