Post #810467

2026-03-26 09:58 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@morachbeag/116294527731112173 Sweden and the rest of the EU abstained from recognizing the Maafa as a crime against humanity on the grounds that (in the words of the US) they don&#39;t &quot;recognize the legal right to reparation for historical wrongs that were not [internationally] illegal at the time they occurred&quot;. https://press.un.org/en/2026/ga12755.doc.htm Meanwhile, Sweden&#39;s current regime wants to deport people by implementing a law to retroactively punish them for petty crime or just not being assimilated into &quot;Swedishness&quot;.

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@Mabande@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 10:00

A quick read of the document gives that the only legalisticly compulsory item out of 16 action points is to decide that the commemoration should be included in the agenda, all others are in the form of "let's create a voluntary work group" or "agree that this has had a lasting effect on Africans and Black people and it would be good to amend it somehow". No demands for cash, only requests for dialogue about maybe to stop standing on our throats. https://docs.un.org/en/A/80/L.48

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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-03-26 11:20

@Mabande > historical wrongs that were not [internationally] illegal at the time they occurred That isn't even legally true, strictly speaking. There were legal understandings already at Hugo Grotius' time that slavery != ownership of human beings, quite unlike the US practice. Bloody pettifoggers. https://shs.hal.science/halshs-04879337v1/document

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