Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation

National reparations commissions in the region will also approach Lloyd’s of London and the Church of England with demands of financial payments and reparative justice for their historic role in slavery.

  • tegs_terryEnglish
    222·
    10 months ago

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

    • mannycalaveraEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

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

      • SmellyHamWallet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months 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.

        • JasSmith@kbin.social
          710·
          10 months ago

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

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            63·
            10 months ago

            There’s a actual difference here in two ways. Firstly racialized transatlantic chattel slavery was a massive break from the slavery that had been practiced before in the form of those three adjectives. But also the European mainland suing Scandinavia for reparations, the entirety of Europe, Middle East, and North Africa suing Italy for reparations, and Iraq and Iran suing Iraq for reparations are materially different from some of the poorest countries in the world suing the royal family of a wealthy nation that still has an empire for reparations.