Comment on Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade

Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• tegs_terry@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably not, and even then it’d be taxpayer money, which is totally unfair.

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • SmellyHamWallet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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      • JasSmith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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