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Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade (www.theguardian.com)

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National reparations commissions in the region will also approach Lloyd’s of London and the Church of England with demands of financial payments and reparative justice for their historic role in slavery.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] captainlezbian 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who gets reparations from them?

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Guess we should be demanding reparations from Italy and Türkiye