Comment on How are slavery reparations fair?

• jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not at all. There are impacts passed down through generations, which is why we see race-based wealth gaps.

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  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Romans had Germanics as slave yet Italy nowadays is a lot less successful than Germany…

    Where is that wealth? Where is the poor Germans (and their decents)?

    There has been so much slavery through out history and there still is, only a minority of slaves in total was black or from Africa.

    Im absolutely against paying any “repetitions” as its disgustingly disrespectful to again put a price tag on people in one way or another, we (Europeans) already do much for development globally, this, just like “sending back” artifacts, is just idiotic and absolutely pointless. Where does the money/artifacts go? Exactly, into the hands of corrupt Politicians, Cartels and Warlords. Its unacceptable.

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The trans-Atlantic slave trade was alive and well within the past 200 years. I’m 40, and my grandmother literally coexisted with people who had been slaves in the US when she was young. You’re comparing this to ancient Rome??

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    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you steal something, it should be sent back. It doesn’t matter whom it goes to.

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