Comment on Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade

• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there precedent for this? What happened in the US for example? Or Belgium? Or Portugal?

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  • SmellyHamWallet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wasn’t Belgium one of the countries that had the biggest hand in slave trade? I remember reading they were horrific. Yet, they’re barely spoken about in the same sentence.

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    • JasSmith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s nothing. You should hear about what the Vikings did. And the Romans. And the Sumerians.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s a actual difference here in two ways. Firstly racialized transatlantic chattel slavery was a massive break from the slavery that had been practiced before in the form of those three adjectives. But also the European mainland suing Scandinavia for reparations, the entirety of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa suing Italy for reparations, and Iraq and Iran suing Iraq for reparations are materially different from some of the poorest countries in the world suing the royal family of a wealthy nation that still has an empire for reparations.

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      • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Who gets reparations from them?

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