The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".

[petergleick@fediscience.org]

The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".

Three countries voted against it.
The US, Argentina, and Israel.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rxqng5pyno

[oscarfalcon@mastodon.social]

@petergleick

"Three countries voted against it.
The US, Argentina, and Israel."

Big. Fucking. Surprise!

[idjansazov@mastodon.social]

@petergleick

In US defense ... Maybe they think Hiroshima and Nagasaki were gravest.

[billclawson@sfba.social]

@petergleick it will be interesting to see how a financial amount is determined and who pays. With the Japanese Internment, there were clear records of the US government policies and records of the people who were interred and what they owned prior to internment. I imagine there may still be records of the slave trade and who was funding it, especially if involved royal houses or country governments. But it will be difficult to figure out how the payout would work.

[hans5524@mastodon.social]

@petergleick [...] 52 countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and EU member states.

[amirbkhan@mastodon.social]

@hans5524 @petergleick
Huh? Ok, this part shouldn’t be left out in the original post, Peter.
The fact that the core European slave-trading nations abstained from voting speaks volumes.
We still have a long ways to go…

[divverent@misskey.de]

@idjansazov@mastodon.social @petergleick@fediscience.org In a similar vein, Germany cannot have voted yes to that as they consider the Holocaust the gravest.