Die Vereinten Nationen stimmten dafür, den Sklavenhandel als „schwerstes Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit“ anzuerkennen und forderten außerdem Wiedergutmachungen für die betroffenen Länder. Die einzigen Länder, die dagegen stimmten, waren die USA, Israel und Argentinien, die den Vorschlag ablehnten
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Von Dyno_boy7441
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Classic Martin, can’t go against his overlords
Why do we keep allowing US companies set up shop here.
What was the argument?
I think tiering crimes against humans is asking for philosophical dilemmas imo
Oddly specific to call only certain instances of slavery the gravest crime against humanity. Also pretty weird to be ranking crimes against humanity
Lol at the UAE voting yes
There are countries that literally practice modern slavery on the yes list.
Ghana wants money. For human rights violations. They who are literally dragging a new draconian LGBT law through parliament as we speak. Will they someday be paying reparations in turn? Will they fuck.
Stupid social media bait. Israel voted no to the „gravest“ crime against humanity part, given they have their own grave crime against humanity that’s pretty culturally sensitive. While the Unites States are the most legally exposed by acknowledging the explicit call for reparations for chattel slavery. The declaration was opaque, legally ambiguous and problematic by claiming slavery out-ranks all other crimes against humanity, many of which are politically and culturally sensitive for individual countries.
I assume it the reparations bit that’s spooked the abstainers. All EU members abstained; I would imagine having members be mandated to provide reparations for slavery in accordance with international law, may negatively affect their position on the importance of international law in cases like Russia. Abstention is easiest way out.
In the US (and probably Argentina too) reparations for slavery have been floating around and in Trump’s America considered „woke.“ Israel, well, take a guess as to why they might be against strengthening international law.
As did 51 other countries including Sweden, Norway, New Zealand and Australia.
What point are you making?
It’s weird to rank crimes.
It’s weird to recognize only the slave trade, presumably only that that happened during the discoveries time and after as the gravest crime (slavery and slave trading was happening for CENTURIES before that)
It’s weird for people that didn’t do it to pay reparations to people that never suffered it.
Yes slavery was and is shitty, but those times are in the humanity’s past, leave it there. Remember, talk about it and all, but no further action is required.
Slavery unfortunately a very enduring problem throughout human history.
I feel like this is essentially playing war crime Olympics as to who suffered more.
Will Ireland be getting reparations from North Africa for the moors who took slaves during their raids of Ireland?
It looks like the entire EU, EEA, UK, Canada and almost all of the broader “West” abstained.
The EU states it’s because of the verbiage of how the vote was presented. Still, it’s not a good look when the two main continents involved in the African Slave Trade are abstaining or voting Against.
Maybe use some critical thought about why or look into it. Clearly just propaganda
Because it was a stupid vote on a divisive and factually wrong topic.
Why would the Irish vote to classify the Atlantic Slave trade as worse than say the Barbary or east African slave trade?
Or the Maori slave trade, or the Korean slave trade, or the Roman slave trade, ir the Aztec slave trade, or the Carthaginian slave trade, or the various Chinese slave trades, or so on and so forth.
Human history is litered with more slave trades than we can comprehend, from almost every culture.
And many of them were numerous times more barbaric than the Atlantic slave trade.
The Atlantic slave trade wasn’t even the worst happening during it’s lifespan.
Millions were taken along the East Coast of Africa and West Coast of India and castration of the men was the regular occurrence.
It’s all terribly nuanced, I’m sure. Us mere plebs couldn’t possibly comprehend why Europe collectively stayed neutral on literal slavery. Leave it to our governments, they know what’s best. All is well in the world, just sit back and enjoy the bread and circuses.
I understand Israel’s reasoning, but honestly the US can go fuck itself
Because its absolute political suicide for any party in europe to in any way engage in talk of the validity of reparations.
Can you imagine them having to tell people in europe which is already a continent with failing services and reducing quality of life their taxes will be rising to pay for something they didnt do with literally no benefit to them, sounds great.
The funniest part of all this being that it was actually places like ghana that sold the slaves to europeans, if anyone deserves reparations it would be the actual descendants of slaves in europe and the US and the Caribbean this could potentially lead to the descendants of slaves in the US paying the descendants of their slavers in Ghana.
Good. Idiotic resolution
As did every European nation which suggests this vote was another ridiculous reparations attempt on white nations, laughable when you consider the actual realities of historical slavery.
Western countries are cowards for abstaining. They should have voted against. It’s just another attempt to demonize people of European heritage as the ultimate global villains. History is littered with atrocities and injustices all over the world. Trying to single out this as the “worst” is nonsense.
You have countries like the United Arab Emirates voting Yes, even though they practice modern slavery.
So, don’t take this vote at face value.
UN votes are complex, and countries tend to vote in blocks. For instance in this case Ireland followed a European block.
I think this could be one of those top 100 shows they have on in the bank holiday…… Tune in after the break for the top 10.
I would abstain too as there are plenty of really bad crimes against humanity.
Famine in Ireland and how the British cultivated it. Famine in Ukraine and how the Russians supported it. Famine in India ( Britain again). Killing millions of Jews in ww2. Indonesians currently wiping out the West Papuans today and of course China with their live organ harvesting of the Uighers today.
All terrible crimes and I’m not sure I would want to rank them
Why Abstain??