☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 days agoThe UN has voted 123-3 in favour to condemn the enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Something, something, same map.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down12
arrow-up1345arrow-down1imageThe UN has voted 123-3 in favour to condemn the enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Something, something, same map.lemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square85linkfedilink
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·14 days agoThis is about reparations and thats the reason why the countries responsible abstained or voted against it. Obviously most countries today condemn the modern slave trade. Doesn’t mean they’ll do anything about it but they do condemn it
minus-squareEarthman_Jim@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·13 days agoI thought Canada was where run-away slaves escaped to. Why abstain in our (Canada’s) case? Oh, duh, we were part of the guilty af UK at the time…
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up25·13 days agoCanada is also still a settler-colony, like the US and Israel.
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workscakelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days agoWhy would Israel vote against this though? I don’t recall them having slave trades
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workscakelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 days agoah, ofc, it’s always racism
minus-squareorc girly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·13 days agoThey’re a US vassal and a white supremacist colony, the indigenous victims are different but it’s the same shit as what European settlers did in América
This is about reparations and thats the reason why the countries responsible abstained or voted against it.
Obviously most countries today condemn the modern slave trade. Doesn’t mean they’ll do anything about it but they do condemn it
I thought Canada was where run-away slaves escaped to. Why abstain in our (Canada’s) case?
Oh, duh, we were part of the guilty af UK at the time…
Canada is also still a settler-colony, like the US and Israel.
True.
Why would Israel vote against this though? I don’t recall them having slave trades
Just that racist
ah, ofc, it’s always racism
They’re a US vassal and a white supremacist colony, the indigenous victims are different but it’s the same shit as what European settlers did in América