Yesterday, a Declaration of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity was voted at UNO. As usual, Israel and the USA voted against. How did your country vote? Any thoughts about it?

  • CactusEcho@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I dunno man, it really just smells like they don’t want to pay up for their crimes against humanity

    Why does it counts only from 17th century onwards? Why only for 1 specific situation?

    • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      because the wealth generated by those crimes is still extremely influential today.

      and that “1 specific situation” was the industrialised destruction of culture, people, families and minds for centuries.

      • CactusEcho@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        So, it’s about influence on the current day? Silly me, to think the holocaust has more impact on the current world order than the slavery that finished in the 19th century.

        and that “1 specific situation” was the industrialised destruction of culture, people, families and minds for centuries.

        So it’s about duration? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_slave_trade This lasted long, wouldn’t this had more impact in the destruction of culture, people and minds?