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MOPE dope hope? Nope. Cope. The BBC reports,
UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as ‘gravest crime against humanity’
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.
They’ll never get reparations. But this move might end up paving the way for healing and justice – by being annoying enough to finally kill off the MOPE Olympics and the self-destructive mindset that mopery promotes.
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And will the enslavement of Africans by other Africans, over thousands of years, also be declared “the gravest crime against humanity”?
How about the Islamic slave trade of Africans over more than a thousand years – with its mass death, castration of most male slaves, and the killing of babies fathered by the rape of African women? Will this be declared “the gravest crime against humanity”?
No – neither of these things will be done by the United Nations, because the United Nations does not care about slavery, murder or rape – it, like all other institutions, only cares about attacking the West.
The United Nations should never have been created – and should be abolished.
Paul Marks, as you correctly point out Islamic slavery was much worse and stretched further back in time and is more long lasting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world
And it’s still going on.
Will African states compensate the British Navy for its attacking slave ships? In 2034, 200 years will have passed since the British Parliament outlawed Slavery in the British Empire. Will African states remember this?