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[Closed] $24tn (£18.8tn) bill for slavery reparations!

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African warlords were selling slaves to the Far East for two centuries before Europe/ America got involved.  Has that been factored in?


 
Posted : 22/08/2023 7:33 pm
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Mrs Zip is a Huguenot. Can I have a french passport please.


 
Posted : 22/08/2023 7:34 pm
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Can we sort the climate issues first please? Those trillions would help massively. Once that’s done we can sit down and discuss who the biggest historical dickheads are. There’s a lot of competition so it might take a while.


 
Posted : 22/08/2023 7:40 pm
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no security, life and death at the whim of landowners and the aristocracy, limited to no ability to change jobs, indentured apprentices, no real rights, no equality, no vote etc. etc.

A small number of people made a lot of money from the servitude of my ancestors.

Much of that sounds like present day under the tories tbf..


 
Posted : 22/08/2023 7:44 pm
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Yep, slavery facilitated the accumulation of capital which was then used to create the first industrialised nation: Britain. However, standards of living and life expectancy fell between 1780 and 1840, the industrialists got rich and the newly evolving working class got screwed. It's a class issue.


 
Posted : 22/08/2023 7:46 pm
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