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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Once you start looking at reparations for slavery and colonialism, you quickly realize it's a debt that the former colonizers will never be able to repay.

And to be honest, for wrongs that were committed over a 350+ year period, it doesn't make sense to repay a debt within a single lifetime.

So I agree with you, something would be better than nothing.

But it is important to make an inventory on what would be justly owed and what has been paid back to date and in what form. Perhaps this process should also last 350 years.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Dedollarization would happen.

It will be painful for countries which are vulnerable and ill prepared.

I honestly think there's a good chance it will happen soon. Trump is speed running "how to dismantle the US power and influence in one presidential term".

I am convinced he is a total Putin puppet and the only reason it doesn't always seem that way, is to be able to deny those allegations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been beaten in an argument.

You are trying to lecture people on a historical genocide while whitewashing and denying a genocide that is happening before our very eyes.

That is truly sickening and not healthy. And it actually hurts people who are now dying and starving.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And you're a Nazi, just against brown people instead of Jews.

Same shit, different victims.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I didn't say that Holocaust wasn't that bad, that's you being racist.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Go up three comments to read the full context. Like a normal human.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Dude, I never said the Holocaust ain't bad.

You're just a racist projecting your beliefs on others

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This whole discussion is in the context that, in Germany and the Western world, the Holocaust is positioned as the worst thing that ever happened. And the Nazi's as uniquely evil.

That's the propaganda we are arguing against.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Did I say the slave trade was an industrial genocide?

You are cherry picking parameters to try and make the Holocaust some kind of unique tier of atrocity.

In the same time frame 20 million Slavs died.

On certain islands in the Caribbean, 100% of the native population was murdered and displaced, which is more than 90%.

Yes, there are certain aspects of the Holocaust that are unique, but it is not in a unique tier by itself. There are many metrics that make other atrocities worse.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It's hilarious how dumb this is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also don't know exactly what the next step is.

Obviously, protesting and civil disobedience.

Looking at historical precedents, I also think targeted sabotage should be part of it. Nothing like the Reichstag fire or the assassination of Ernst vom Rath that would fuel a civil war.

In WW2, our resistance performed targeted sabotage on (for example) rail lines, pipelines and electrical networks that did not hurt anyone, but which did weaken the German war effort.

One big disadvantage compared to WW2 is the massive surveillance state.

During slavery there was also the underground railroad. I would definitely set up a system like that to bring targeted activists to Canada. You really don't want to lose your intelligentsia. Let them provide resistance from Canada.

I hope others have better ideas on effective tactics though.

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