☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 hours 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-square37fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down11
arrow-up1132arrow-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 · 6 hours agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down1·6 hours 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-up1·edit-21 hour 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-up2·29 minutes agoCanada is also still a settler-colony, like the US and Israel.
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.