▲ 86 ▼ West refuses to condemn slavery at UN (www.geopoliticaleconomy.report) submitted 7 months ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -15 points 7 months ago (5 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago (2 children) Slavery has not been abolished in the USA, so why would they condemn it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -3 points 7 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago (1 child) You could certainly argue that debt slavery makes anyone who isn’t a capitalist a slave, but I mean: except as a punishment for crime Slavery, even outside of debt slavery, continues to exist in the USA. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -7 points 7 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* You can make the points you're making about wage slavery, but you're conveying it a way that seems like you're saying it's same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you're minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does) permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) [–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 12 points 7 months ago Idk, i think it should have reparations, like, if for hundreds of years, robbing, killing, enforcing servitude of tens of millions of people for the enrichment of a few countries should make these countries pay. It gave these countries the backbone to todays "welfare states", the industrial revolution was kickstarted on the cotton and sugar fields that these enslaved people worked, etc, etc, etc. I don't care about the legality, the wording, the whatever, it seems pretty clear to me that this should happen, and them giving this response shows that basically they don't care and never cared. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago Western countries did not refuse to condemn slavery — given an opportunity to do so they simply didn't or opposed it ??? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago (2 children) Slavery has not been abolished in the USA, so why would they condemn it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -3 points 7 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago (1 child) You could certainly argue that debt slavery makes anyone who isn’t a capitalist a slave, but I mean: except as a punishment for crime Slavery, even outside of debt slavery, continues to exist in the USA. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -7 points 7 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* You can make the points you're making about wage slavery, but you're conveying it a way that seems like you're saying it's same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you're minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does) permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -3 points 7 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago (1 child) You could certainly argue that debt slavery makes anyone who isn’t a capitalist a slave, but I mean: except as a punishment for crime Slavery, even outside of debt slavery, continues to exist in the USA. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -7 points 7 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* You can make the points you're making about wage slavery, but you're conveying it a way that seems like you're saying it's same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you're minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does) permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago (1 child) You could certainly argue that debt slavery makes anyone who isn’t a capitalist a slave, but I mean: except as a punishment for crime Slavery, even outside of debt slavery, continues to exist in the USA. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -7 points 7 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* You can make the points you're making about wage slavery, but you're conveying it a way that seems like you're saying it's same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you're minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does) permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] howmuchlonger@lemmy.org -7 points 7 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* You can make the points you're making about wage slavery, but you're conveying it a way that seems like you're saying it's same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you're minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* You can make the points you're making about wage slavery, but you're conveying it a way that seems like you're saying it's same as chattel slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and it sounds like you're minimizing just how much suffering it caused (and still does) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 12 points 7 months ago Idk, i think it should have reparations, like, if for hundreds of years, robbing, killing, enforcing servitude of tens of millions of people for the enrichment of a few countries should make these countries pay. It gave these countries the backbone to todays "welfare states", the industrial revolution was kickstarted on the cotton and sugar fields that these enslaved people worked, etc, etc, etc. I don't care about the legality, the wording, the whatever, it seems pretty clear to me that this should happen, and them giving this response shows that basically they don't care and never cared. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago Western countries did not refuse to condemn slavery — given an opportunity to do so they simply didn't or opposed it ??? permalink fedilink source parent