National reparations commissions in the region will also approach Lloyd’s of London and the Church of England with demands of financial payments and reparative justice for their historic role in slavery.

  • Decoy321
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    81 year ago

    Honest question: Is there any legitimate expectation of them actually paying up?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Is there precedent for this? What happened in the US for example? Or Belgium? Or Portugal?

        • @SmellyHamWallet
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          81 year ago

          Wasn’t Belgium one of the countries that had the biggest hand in slave trade? I remember reading they were horrific. Yet, they’re barely spoken about in the same sentence.

          • JasSmith
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            -31 year ago

            That’s nothing. You should hear about what the Vikings did. And the Romans. And the Sumerians.

            • @captainlezbian
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              41 year ago

              There’s a actual difference here in two ways. Firstly racialized transatlantic chattel slavery was a massive break from the slavery that had been practiced before in the form of those three adjectives. But also the European mainland suing Scandinavia for reparations, the entirety of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa suing Italy for reparations, and Iraq and Iran suing Iraq for reparations are materially different from some of the poorest countries in the world suing the royal family of a wealthy nation that still has an empire for reparations.

              • JasSmith
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                01 year ago

                So the morality of the exercise hinges on the wealth of the accused?

              • @captainlezbian
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                21 year ago

                For Sumeria, you could just shuffle money around rural Iraq and Iran.