UN Vote on Slave Trade

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”…

The resolution – proposed by Ghana – called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.

The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against – the United States, Israel and Argentina.

Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.

Well, at least the EU abstained, that’s something. What an incredibly stupid organization UN is. We should stop funding it or participating in its lunacy in any way.

8 thoughts on “UN Vote on Slave Trade

  1. I applaud Ghana for standing up for what’s right. Now, of course, they should be the first country to apologize and donate to the reparations fund, seeing as how they were a major hub of the transatlantic slave trade. I look forward to them sending money to the black Americans whose ancestors they wronged!

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      1. Unsurprisingly, Russia voted in favor. No right-wing commentator will point this out because almost nobody is capable of recognizing that they were wrong. People have sore, inflamed egos.

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  2. “voted to recognise the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”

    Not the slave trade in general, nor any of the Arab slave trade routes (some of which are still in operation) not existing slavery or pseudo slavery… but just the Atlantic Slave Trade, which was awful and a crime against humanity…. but it’s worth noting that only something like 6% of Africans taken from that ended up in what is now the US.

    But guess who’s going to be expected to make reparation payments out the wazoo?

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    1. That’s the whole point. It’s a play for money. This is all so stupid. People are trying to snatch the remaining crumbs of the disappearing nation-state pie.

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  3. As a Brit, I want to know whether the reparations will also include payment towards the cost of wiping out the Atlantic slave trade – which were the most costly humanitarian decision in any nation’s history!

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    1. “whether the reparations will also include payment towards the cost of wiping out the Atlantic slave trade”

      Don’t be silly. It’s not about slavery at all (or they’d try to wipe it out where it’s still being practiced). It’s about Mau-mauing the flak catchers (basically the US).

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