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๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
I am not particularly fond of Douglas Murray but he made a very good point once
Britain was the first country to completely abolish slavery
Imagine if in the future everybody decides that eating meat is morally wrong
This country is the first country to totally abolish the practice of killing and slaughtering animals
And everybody blames this country for a practice that they abolished before anyone else that everyone else participated in
Because truthfully the thing that actually ended the practice of slavery was not that we suddenly became morally superior but it was the Industrial Revolution
This is the same reason that back in the date was abolished and the American North but not in the American South
It's all about incentives when you get down to it pretty much every Society practice slavery before industrialization because all the incentives encouraged it
What most people think about how slavery worked is the cartoon version where like 30 random white dudes just went over to Africa and kidnapped a bunch of people and that absolutely did not happen
Yeah we participate in the slave trade to an enormous extent and nearly all of that was people in Africa selling rival African people to us in exchange for things like gunpowder and firearms
Literally 50% of people on this planet are the Descendants of Slaves
This happened nearly everywhere throughout the entire world until civilizational and technological development made the practice unnecessary and changed the incentives
Slavery is still widely practiced in many places in the world but of course nobody cares about that because it doesn't serve a particular narrative
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
She ate. Olandria Carthen as Vixen for Halloween.
The bus is already a damn trashmobile
Imagine if @NYCMayor actually makes them free ๐
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
Slavery was a great evil, practiced in almost every culture at some point in history.
Britain did more than any other country to bring the international slave trade to an end.
Our Prime Minister should be proud of that history, not caving to those who wish to rewrite it.
Burnham 'open' to calls for slavery apology but not reparations bbc.in/3W3enJP
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
Prince Albert apologised for slavery back in 1840 in a speech at an international anti-slavery meeting in London. 186 years agoโฆ
Perhaps the Prime Minister would do better to focus on the 50 million people enslaved TODAY - four times the number transported throughout 300 years of transatlantic slavery.
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
The Arab-Islamic Slave Trade enslaved more people than the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Slavery was only banned in Oman in 1970, Qatar in 1952 and Turkey in 1923.
If anyone owes reparations it isnโt us.
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
I donโt want a leader that apologises for the transatlantic slave trade.
I want a leader that promotes the fact that Britain abolished the slave trade at great sacrifice whilst condemning the modern slave trade active throughout Africa and the Middle East.
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
Slavery was abhorrent. Fact.
But to issue a formal apology today is dangerous virtue-signalling that could expose Britain to reparations costing us millions or even billions of pounds. This is very much how the Chagos disaster started under the Tories.
There is no good reason why people living in 21st Britain should pay for the wrongdoings of centuries ago.
And letโs also not forget the role that Britain played in ending slavery- often overlooked in our schools, museums and by the BBC.
And then there are the clear benefits of the British Empire. Investment, infrastructure, legal systems, education, healthcare- there was also much that was good. I write a lot about this in my best-selling book, โPatriot: Empire, betrayal and hopeโ.
Letโs teach history in a balanced and truthful way; not through the lens of political ideology.
And Burnham should stand up for 21st century Brits, not pay for the wrongs of 18th century slave-traders.
UK PM Burnham says he is 'open' to formal apology for slavery, but rules out reparations reut.rs/3WYenLe
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
Britain did more to end slavery than any nation in history.
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
Britain has nothing to apologise for today. We abolished the slave trade, and our taxpayers should not be paying for the sins of generations past. Itโs time to look forward and put Britain first.
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
This chapter of history is closed.
Great Britain was an undisputed leader in abolishing slavery.
No apologies and no reparations, exactly the right position.
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
Britain didnโt โclean up its own mess.โ It spent decades and a fortune crushing the slave trade while African kingdoms & Arab traders kept selling people.
African governments control those mines today. Blaming British โvampiresโ forever is just racial grievance cosplay.
Every single word of this.
But perhaps especially this:
โAnd I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who donโt know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.โ
Itโs all so tiresome.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britainโs role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who donโt know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britainโs greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britainโs deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britainโs role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who donโt know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britainโs greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britainโs deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
