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?
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
the thread on .world about this one is pretty gross.
Here’s the map of the vote to really drive the point home.
It’s always the same map
Cries quietly in Indigenous slaughter
What does this vote achieve?
It’s meant to help get reparations for imperialized people
Ah cool. I get Canadas vote then, kinda support it but poor wording. Among the gravest or something similar, Holocaust and Palestine should be up there.
Which is fucked, it’s like generational violence but an entire people instead of a family
It is four centuries of colonial violence, being kidnapped, stripped of your language, culture and humanity, tortured and raped and forced you and your descendants for hundreds of years to work to death just so that your owners could afford to not do anything productive. I can see how it’s the gravest. If people are gonna use this as an excuse not to care for other crimes against humanity they’re sadistic fools and should be called out as such.
It’s the sad reality of politics and agreements, simple wording can screw you over in ways you don’t yet see. Id be very interested to see what difference among the gravest would make. I’d be very disappointed in Canada to abstain then. And curious if any supporters change their vote.
Wrong
There’s a pattern lead by the US, but they are all different, in my opinion. Where are you from? How did your country vote? How do you feel about it?
I don’t support the “Gravest Crime against Humanity” wording in the resolution, so I have no problems with the way my country voted.
You only posted half of the title.
Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity
Fixed.
Why am I even surprised by the US being the US anymore.
“Hey you know this thing thats super bad?”
“Of course we’ve known it’s bad for many years now”
“Well we should officially condemn it.”
“Whoa whoa let’s hold up and think about that for a second.”
Just think of all the money the US could make though! There must be a way to profit from it.
I don’t know the wording on the declaration itself, but it’s distinctly possible that the US prison system is in direct opposition to it.
It’s the Same Map As Always, USA + vassals Vs Rest of the World.
Is it? It’s not really subtle.
The yearly vote about blockade on Cuba is kind of an exception, even EU and the Oceanian Plankton usually vote “for”.
My favourite is the voting about combating the glorification of nazism, really says all
USA doesn’t have vassals. If it did, they’d be helping them bomb Iran right now.
If the EU weren’t vassals they’d be importing fuel from Russia and solar from China, not because of ideals or whatever but because of practicality and (in the case of solar) to avoid climate collapse
My disappointment in the US continues to be consistent and expected.
i sometimes wonder how the us will develop in some future where the petrodollar is no longer the world’s currency; would it be like the uk/netherlands/belgium still clinging to colonialism or will it be spain/portrugal still trying to cling onto colonialism despite not being part of the club anymore.
It’s hard to imagine, because it is even more useless and corrupt than those other countries. And that’s hard to imagine.
i bet it’ll be like france, with the closest thing to actual colonialism that the world pretends it doesn’t exist; but w latin america instead of west africa.
Tangential but I swear no one talks about how insanely racist Argentina is. Just look at things that happen in footy there
They do, they just happen to not speak English as a first language.
And they export it.
Canada : Abstantion
Tunisia : Yes
There’s normally a reason when that assortment of countries chooses to abstain (the no voters are normally just evil). In this case it’s likely the use of the word “gravest”. I’d say the holocaust was worse, at least in the slave trade the people were just a means to an end. The holocaust involved torture by design and aimed to erase an entire religion.
Others may disagree, but there’s at least room for doubt on the declaration that it’s the “gravest”.
EU’s stated reason for abstaining is
1, use of superlatives
2, bias in presentation, against UN charter
3, they’re against reparations
I dunno man, it really just smells like they don’t want to pay up for their crimes against humanity. When your first two points are nit picking and your last one is “and we were told we wouldn’t have to answer for shitty things before we made rules about it”, it’s kinda giving away why you’re against it.
