"Israel" strange coincidence !!! (ironic)
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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They're just jealous
AIPAC won't let them.
Anyway, i'd wager Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the greatest crimes against humanity.
Are they? The trans-atlantic slave trade lasted centuries. Millions died, millions more were enslaved. It's not a competition, but the amount of victims was easily in tens of millions there and honestly is death worse than chattel slavery?
Millions in the past vs 200 000 within a second in the recent past, but true, not a competition.
is death worse than chattel slavery?
I'd rather there not be slaves to ask, really.
Exactly, 200,000 dead in a second plus the cleanup and resulting health/environmental issues... comparatively speaking very low on humanities attrocities, it's just the speed that stands out.
Japanese treatment of Chinese during shit like Unit 731 caused astronomically more pain and suffering with lasting effects on humanity. The North Atlantic slave trade caused more damage to humanity than the entirety nuclear weapons/energy/research/testing combined.
So it's pretty definitionally oppression Olympics, but I feel like the slave trade is a decent contender. It lasted centuries; maybe more depending a bunch of history that's still up in the air. The Holocaust (for example) only went on for a few years.
I'm not sure Ghana has hands as clean as they're implying, though. The victims of the transatlantic slave trade had to (ahem) leave Africa entirely, and usually it wasn't the Europeans catching and selling them on their own.
So it's pretty definitionally oppression Olympics,
That is the reason so many countries abstained from the vote.
It shouldn't be the average taxpayer in these countries who has to pay for reparations (especially when many were descendants of peasants who were also often exploited in other ways), while the wealthy families who benefited the most evade responsibility, smuggling their blood-earned fortunes to tax havens.
We don't recognise any non-white responsibility in any form of slavery here
Slavery has existed in many different cultures, and Africa has had slave trade after it was abolished in Europe and North America, but I think it's fair to say that the transatlantic slave trade was the most cruel and inhuman form of slavery. The only form of slavery that may have been worse was the one Leopold II imposed on Congo.
It's racism that made those forms of slavery even worse. I think racism makes everything worse.
I think the biggest contender for worst crime against humanity was the Native American genocide. That was also driven by racism. So was the Holocaust.
I don't see how any of that relates to the white washing of African people's involvement in enslaving and selling other African ethnic groups but go on
You guessed it, it's the usual map:
The EU abstained because bla bla TLDR: they don't want to pay reparations.
I am so fucking disgusted (yet not surprised) by this dipshit traitorous worthless pile of shit government of Germany, bootlicking fascists all over the world. Once, in the 80s/90s I was naive enough to think we had learned our lesson. But turns out, Germans will happily flock back to fascism the moment being decent human beings slightly inconveniences them.
Yeah - I know - it's a matter of brainwashing & capitalist propaganda, and this is not a problem unique to Germany, but I prefer to be disgusted at the mess in front of my own doorstep before complaining about others.
Leck Eier, Fritze.
I don't think Estonia, Poland or Montenegro were very worried about paying reparations. Maybe colonial powers, but those are a minority in Europe.
The US would owe several times it's worth in reparations for slavery, The War on Drugs, The destruction of the Middle East, Imperalism leading to the deaths of countless people, genocide of Native Americans, poisoning the world multiple times with chemicals, etc. The list is so long it isn't funny.
I often say if you were to list all the atrocities and lives destroyed by the US it would be more than my lifetime just to read them all off. It is mind boggling.
So Ghana proposed to punish itself and all of its neighbors for selling slaves to Europeans passing through towards Americas, or what?
Gravest crime so far
I'm surprised the MAGA fucks in charge of this run away derailed freight train have not switched to the Confederate government flag.
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