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Dessalines@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

West refuses to condemn slavery at UN

www.geopoliticaleconomy.report

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West refuses to condemn slavery at UN

www.geopoliticaleconomy.report

Dessalines@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago
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The Global South voted for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Europe abstained. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it.
  • Trying2KnowMyself [they/them/their/theirs/themself]@lemmy.ml
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    Slavery has not been abolished in the USA, so why would they condemn it?

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      Haha, true. Everyone in the world is a slave on a corporate plantation.

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        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. amerikkka

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          Every country that has billionaires also has slaves. The problem is the ruling class. Greed is universal.

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            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)

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