The Global South voted for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Europe abstained. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it.
The headline is wrong because Western countries did not refuse to condemn slavery—they opposed or abstained from a specific UN resolution due to concerns about reparations and legal wording, not because they support slavery.
You can make the points you’re making about wage slavery, but you’re conveying it a way that seems like you’re saying it’s same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you’re minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does)
Idk, i think it should have reparations, like, if for hundreds of years, robbing, killing, enforcing servitude of tens of millions of people for the enrichment of a few countries should make these countries pay. It gave these countries the backbone to todays “welfare states”, the industrial revolution was kickstarted on the cotton and sugar fields that these enslaved people worked, etc, etc, etc.
I don’t care about the legality, the wording, the whatever, it seems pretty clear to me that this should happen, and them giving this response shows that basically they don’t care and never cared.
The headline is wrong because Western countries did not refuse to condemn slavery—they opposed or abstained from a specific UN resolution due to concerns about reparations and legal wording, not because they support slavery.
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Slavery has not been abolished in the USA, so why would they condemn it?
Haha, true. Everyone in the world is a slave on a corporate plantation.
You could certainly argue that debt slavery makes anyone who isn’t a capitalist a slave, but I mean:
Slavery, even outside of debt slavery, continues to exist in the USA.
Every country that has billionaires also has slaves. The problem is the ruling class. Greed is universal.
You can make the points you’re making about wage slavery, but you’re conveying it a way that seems like you’re saying it’s same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you’re minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does)
Idk, i think it should have reparations, like, if for hundreds of years, robbing, killing, enforcing servitude of tens of millions of people for the enrichment of a few countries should make these countries pay. It gave these countries the backbone to todays “welfare states”, the industrial revolution was kickstarted on the cotton and sugar fields that these enslaved people worked, etc, etc, etc.
I don’t care about the legality, the wording, the whatever, it seems pretty clear to me that this should happen, and them giving this response shows that basically they don’t care and never cared.
I don’t agree with them, I’m just saying the headline is wrong.