☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 17 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-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up1351
arrow-up1351imageThe 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 · 17 days agomessage-square84linkfedilink
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·17 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-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up25·17 days agoCanada is also still a settler-colony, like the US and Israel.
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agoWhy would Israel vote against this though? I don’t recall them having slave trades
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoah, ofc, it’s always racism
minus-squareorc girly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·17 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
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Canada is also still a settler-colony, like the US and Israel.
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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