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MyYeeHaa 6h ago

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.

Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers 10h 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!

@majorlinux Hoping this crap goes away is definitely not working - another neo-liberal trick.

@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

@majorlinux Australia not shocked

Chris Alemany 9h ago

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

We have lost our moral standing.

@majorlinux This was a dreadful travesty not only involving the people of Africa.

@majorlinux fuck all the countries that did anything but vote yes

Jean (*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*.ﾟ 8h 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

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦7h ago

@majorlinux was looking for this, thanks. btw when the Russian Federation is on the right side of history… jfc

Toni Aittoniemi 6h ago

@majorlinux There’s not a single mainland European country that dared to even vote! Fundamentally racist societies, the lot of them. 🤬

“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

David Penington 5h ago

@majorlinux Israel will reject the relegation of the holocaust to lesser 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.

Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers 13m ago

@DavidPenington This isn't just a Trump problem.

This is US policy through and through.

@majorlinux If the screenshot is real the position of all the european countries is embarassing.
The source?

Herzleid 1h ago

@luc0x61
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1167199

UN resolution urges reparations for slavery’s ‘historical wrongs’

Applause erupted in the UN General Assembly Hall on Wednesday as Member States adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.

UN News

Regendans 1m ago

@herzleid @luc0x61

https://ghana.un.org/en/312495-ghana-leads-historic-un-vote-declaring-slave-trade-gravest-crime-against-humanity

Ghana Leads Historic UN Vote Declaring Slave Trade the Gravest Crime Against Humanity

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to designate the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the system of racialised chattel enslavement as “the gravest crime against humanity.” Adopted on Wednesday 25 March 2026 with an overwhelming majority of 123 Member States voting in favour, UN Resolution A/80/L.48 marks a historic shift in the international community’s engagement with the enduring legacies of slavery. Three countries—Argentina, Israel, and the United States—voted against it and 52 abstained.

Ghana

Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers 7m ago

@luc0x61 Here's one of many sources:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/un-calls-for-reparations-to-remedy-the-historical-wrongs-of-trafficking-enslaved-africans#:~:text=The%20resolution%20%22unequivocally%20condemns%20the,trusted%20journalism%20and%20civil%20dialogue.

"The vote in the 193-member world body was 123-3, with 52 abstentions. Argentina, Israel and the United States were the three members voting against the resolution. The United Kingdom and all 27 members of the European Union were among those that abstained."

UN calls for reparations to remedy the historical wrongs of trafficking enslaved Africans

The U.N. General Assembly's resolution also urges “the prompt and unhindered restitution” of cultural items to their countries of origin without charge.

PBS News

None Hitwonder 9m ago

@majorlinux GODDAMMIT SPAIN