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The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.

The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.

The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.

Countries like the UK have long rejected calls to pay reparations, saying today's institutions cannot be held responsible for past wrongs.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

ITT: tons of softball racism by the people in the nations that voted no or abstained.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Notably of Germans showing up too believing the trans-Saharan slaven trade was worse. Guess their curriculum included a lot of anti-Arab propaganda to go along with the Zionism brainwashing

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Glad the UN is focusing on current issues.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

ITT: a disturbing amount of multi paragraph comments and replies from a disturbing amount of people doing unbelievable levels of mental acrobatics to say "nothing can be done, it's too late, everything is good now".

Fuck you, nothing anyone has written in a try to make this bad comes even close to a valid point against this. All you've managed to do is show your ingrained racism and inability to feel empathy, sympathy and understanding of struggles you, your family and any close relative withing a few hundred years have gone through.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -2 points 17 hours ago

Liberals are always "on the side of justice" until it comes at a slight cost of their own privileges. Then it's "the past is the past".

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 0 points 17 hours ago

UN - the most useless international organization by its own standards in modern human history

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world -1 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

Hold up. I'm all fine with apologising for slavery if one participated in it... But does this include everyone who participated, or is this another appearences type thing that completely ignores the majority of African slaves were bought from African slave markets run by various West-Coast African kingdoms?

[–] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf -4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Dear MAGA Nazi loser virgin - kindly go fuck and then kill yourself.

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