The Global South voted for a UN General Assembly resolution condemning the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”. Europe abstained. The US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it.
  • tjr@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Calling something the “gravest crime” seems kind of strange. So genocide is better? Mass rape? Why compare?

    • orc girly@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      The Transatlantic slave trade lasted for centuries and included both genocide and rape and way more