GeneralInterest@lemmy.world to United KingdomEnglish · 2 months agoTime has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaderswww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squarewewbulllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·2 months agoCountries should not be pushing for reparations when it was them selling their people into the slave trade. It’s historical revisionism.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoYou’re not wrong about the slave trade in Africa, which is why the conversation should be about the British Empire and colonialism instead. Edited because I’m a doofus who didn’t read the article first and the other comments are talking about imperialism because they didn’t read it either
Countries should not be pushing for reparations when it was them selling their people into the slave trade.
It’s historical revisionism.
You’re not wrong about the slave trade in Africa, which is why the conversation should be about the British Empire and colonialism instead.
Edited because I’m a doofus who didn’t read the article first and the other comments are talking about imperialism because they didn’t read it either