Yesterday, a Declaration of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity was voted at UNO. As usual, Israel and the USA voted against. How did your country vote? Any thoughts about it?
Here’s the map of the vote to really drive the point home.
It’s always the same map
Abstaining means against in my book
I don’t know it can either mean political cowardice or a political compromise. None of those options are meant to be flattering but to me, if the vote was close I would have been angrier about an abstention.
the thread on .world about this one is pretty gross.
I wonder why…
Cries quietly in Indigenous slaughter
I hope your time will come too, it’s crazy how overshadowed this topic is
Fuck Argentina.
I’m from there, all I can say is… President Xi, my country yearns for freedom
I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill us all
As someone who isn’t from Buenos Aires that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make /hj
We’ve always been a colony of
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Now the government doesn’t care to hide it at all, quite the contrary the president is very explicit about his love affair with yankizionists.
And let’s not pretend that the opposition is any different. Except for some small trotskyist parties with no real political weight.
Liberal idealism plagues us, we need more political education yesterday
igual decir que somos una colonia me parece un poco exagerado, estamos pasando por un momento de mierda pero eso le pasa a cualquier pais de latam cada ciertos años, el tema es que el peronismo tiene captado a la izquierda
Tenemos más una relación neocolonial por el tema del FMI que impide que tengamos autonomía y soberanía, pero sí es un problema bastante grande lo que dices, lo único bueno es que lo que está pasando últimamente está ayudándonos a que se vea lo que venimos diciendo desde hace mucho, así que tenemos que organizarnos mejor que nunca y aprovechar para conectar todo, educar y crecer, creo yo
“against :3” they’re using that emote in UN votes now?
So Serbia is the only European country with balls?
Turkiye also voted in favor. I get the reservation, but it’s EU.
Well Turkie has notoriously independent politics despite being in NATO(and EU candidate lol) so no surprise here at all.
Fair.
Maybe Turkey’s balls are located east of the Bosporus strait
Please read the declaration before responding to this ragebait post
By all means. Here it is. After reading, please feel free to come back and comment. I find this point interesting:
Calls for the prompt and unhindered restitution of cultural properties, objets d’art, monuments, museum pieces, artefacts, manuscripts and documents, and national archives that are of spiritual, historical and cultural or other value to countries of origin without charge, and urges the strengthening of international cooperation on reparations for any damage done, recognizing that this leads to the promotion of nations.
These people! How dare them to claim back what’s theirs!?
For! And would you look at that… Practically all of europe abstaining, color me shocked (¬_¬)
Also… Argentina? YUCK! Sadly not a surprise either.
If you know who Milei is the Argentina vote makes sense.
So the US voted against so it didn’t pass, yet again, I presume?
Fuck veto voting
This isn’t the Security Council. Nobody gets a veto.
Yet again the genocide of first nations peoples/aboriginals is kind of forgotten. All crimes on a massive scale should be remembered by the international community and when one is elevated as the worst I fear that it will incentivise forgetting of the others and potential rascism clash poits.
It’s not. Most of the nations that suffered this crimes voted in favor.
I got 3 things to say on this:
If the vote was to recognize it as the worst thing humanity has done, I’d vote against. I feel like there are a couple other things that were even worse. Even only considering enslavement, out of all of history, I would have reservations against saying this was the absolute worst of it.
Every country that abstained was just against it, and didn’t have the balls to vote it.
Yeah, the US is an asshole. They’re screwing it all up across the globe and they’re also why Cuba is still fucked. Eat the rich.
As bad as African slavery was, I kinda agree with you that it might not actually be the worst thing humans have done to each other.
Specifically, how many native populations were genocided by colonizers the world over?
Or hitler killing like 6 million unarmed Jews, or the other slave trades that lasted far longer, or the terrible human experiments Japan did to people during ww2, or when hundreds of black people were blocked from having their syphilis cured for 50 years because scientists just wanted to see what happens, or the tons of times entire cities would be raped and pillaged and taken over with no male child left alive… I mean, there’s been so many atrocious acts done by humanity… To actually vote and say this was the worst one is just tacky.
Considering that the death toll caused by the triangle trade is estimated to be between 6 million and 60 million Africans with a general consensus of ~17 million, I think you may need to re-evaluate just how brutal it was.
Many people will point out correctly that Africa already had a slave trade structure before America and Europe got involved; but the fact is the Western slavery was far worse than the slavery in Africa. For example, the fact that slaves’ children were born into slavery was uniquely American slavery. Basically, African nations did not dehumanize their slaves, and it’s incredible what brutal things humans can do to each other the moment one side doesn’t view the other side as thinking human beings, but rather cattle to be done with as they please.
Study more history. This isn’t the thing with the most dead, the most raped, or the most cruelty, or the longest lasting. It was really fucked up, sure. But the worst thing humanity has ever done?
Hell… Religion might be the worst thing humanity has ever done.
Proudly in favor
Abstention might as well be an against vote
USA I made a little poem
Our president is child Making our reputation be defiled Seen as a big whiny bully While hiding his crimes obscurely
Trump is just confirming the reputation US already had
