How did your country vote?

https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130

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”.

It’s nothing to do with the wording, really. This is about countries refusing to acknowledge the historic dimension of their racial supremacy doctrine, and denying reparations. It really doesn’t matter if it’s the gravest or not, which is, just by the span of four centuries of practice.