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

• 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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      • JasSmith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So the morality of the exercise hinges on the wealth of the accused?

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who gets reparations from them?

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      • RobotToaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Guess we should be demanding reparations from Italy and Türkiye

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For Sumeria, you could just shuffle money around rural Iraq and Iran.

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