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[–] 57 points 5 months ago (41 children)

Are we condemning modern slave trades or just ones no one living can be held accountable for?

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Here's a press release from the resolution. The "Transatlantic Slave Trade" as a proper noun refers to the historical kidnapping and taking of Africans to the New World to be enslaved.

    The resolution emphasised “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity by reason of the definitive break in world history, scale, duration, systemic nature, brutality and enduring consequences that continue to structure the lives of all people through racialized regimes of labour, property and capital.”

    It doesn't enforce reparations, but:

    It affirmed the importance of addressing historical wrongs affecting Africans and people of the diaspora in a manner that promotes justice, human rights, dignity and healing, while emphasising that claims for reparations represent a concrete step towards remedy.

    The US objected:

    Furthermore [per the ambassador], the US “does not recognise a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”

    I'll note for thoroughness' sake that it not having been illegal under international law is basically true but 1000% beside the point (obviously). The US Supreme Court actually heard cases in the early 1800s about how slavery was treated under e.g. the Law of Nations, but evidence was scant that it was prohibited, and the court more or less (oversimplifying) had to make shit up. The important point is that you can't say "Oh, well the perpetrarors collectively didn't prohibit it, so there are no grounds for reparations." It's obviously ridiculous.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Damn, that's crazy. Even 200 years after slavery was abolished, the US officially still doesn't think it's wrong. Just that it "lost the case".

    Inb4 Roe v. Wae overturning, but for the Emancipation Proclamation. Backwards ass country lol

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    [–] 51 points 5 months ago* (13 children)

    And Europe abstaining... Still very far from a reckoning, not to mention reparations

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    [–] 45 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    In case it's too small to see, the third country that voted against is Israel.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I know its the same ol map but the abstaining countries speaks a lot more to their current relationship with the US.

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    [–] 21 points 5 months ago

    The only Trans the US Govt approved of

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I couldn't find the third country which voted against it, then I found the god's own people who were freed from slavery by god.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Jewish Holy Scriptures are not against slavery at all. They go in large detail about how to treat the slaves.

    Leviticus 25:44-46

    “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+25%3A44-46&version=NIV

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    They aren't really for or against the African slave trade, but they take umbrage with anyone claiming October 7th and the thousands of beheaded babies wasn't the worst crime in human history

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    [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Abstaining is just a soft no. It is shameful that 53 countries did that

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  • [+] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Why does the "international community" either abstain or vote against? Also nice stance by the gulf states - the Kafala system is obviously not slavery ;)

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    US- No to slavery but yes to unpaid overtime or direct unpaid like now.

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    let me guess... US Israel Argentina Ukriane

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