Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers
It's no coincidence that the U.S., Israel and Argentina, as three entirely repressive regimes, have voted against condemning the trafficking of enslaved Africans and acknowledging the lasting impacts of slavery –– and that every country responsible for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade has abstained from the vote entirely.
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Show threadMarcus "MajorLinux" Summers8h ago
White supremacy is foundational to colonial superpowers; the legacy of which lives on. The only real remedy for the brutalities of slavery is reparations – and a new system that prevents these atrocities from ever taking place again!
Show thread(^^)8h ago
@majorlinux Hoping this crap goes away is definitely not working - another neo-liberal trick.
Show threadHTPC NZ5h ago
@majorlinux well ones voting "No" showed themselves. So why are so many abstaining? Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, UK and even Ukraine. no I didn't miss seeing Australia, Fiji and New Zealand in the same boat. Seriously WTF? Do we think pedo in chief will think highly of us or something pretending to be on the fence? As always rest of the west as always showing their true colours. #nz #aus #nzpol #auspol
Show threadAndrew8h ago
@majorlinux Australia not shocked
Show threadChris Alemany7h ago

@majorlinux the sad thing for me is I just assumed we abstained.

We have lost our moral standing.

Show threadAAA3657h ago
@majorlinux This was a dreadful travesty not only involving the people of Africa.
Show threadgavinisdie 6h ago
@majorlinux fuck all the countries that did anything but vote yes
Show threadJean (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ6h ago

@majorlinux Im more curious about those who abstained. Belgium??? REALLY??? The audacity of this bitch.

Canada? UK? Australia??? New Zealand?? France????

The " lets stay silent so they dont notice our racism" gang

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦5h ago
@majorlinux was looking for this, thanks. btw when the Russian Federation is on the right side of history… jfc
Show threadToni Aittoniemi4h ago
@majorlinux There’s not a single mainland European country that dared to even vote! Fundamentally racist societies, the lot of them. 🤬
Show threadoatmeal3h ago

“When it’s framed as a trade, it distorts the reality,” said Jasmine Mickens, a postgraduate student of history and government at Harvard University. “It was not a consensual joint business enterprise.”

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/25/un-votes-slave-trade-gravest-crime-against-humanity-reparatory-justice

Most all EU countries and the UK abstained. #USA #Israel and #Argentina voted against. Israel has historically invoked Holocaust memory and international frameworks around crimes against humanity, yet voted against extending that moral-legal category here.

The same legal frameworks and reparations logic could be applied to #Palestinian dispossession. The #ICJ already mandated Israel to end its occupation, dismantle its settlements, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims and facilitate the return of displaced people. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/experts-hail-icj-declaration-illegality-israels-presence-occupied

#usa #israel #argentina #palestinian #icj #palestine #gazagenocide

UN votes to describe slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’

Members call for reparatory justice as landmark resolution aims for ‘political recognition at the highest level’

The Guardian
Show threadDavid Penington3h ago
@majorlinux Israel will reject the relegation of the holocaust to lolesser status & desperately needs Trump's favor. Argentina's president is Trump's client & desperately needs Trump's favor.
Trump is a historically ignorant monster & knows reparations talk is aimed at the US.
There are problems with the resolution & approach that makes others abstain.
Show threadluca2h ago
@majorlinux If the screenshot is real the position of all the european countries is embarassing.
The source?