UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity'

[malaise]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg06q36052o

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.
The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.
The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.
Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.

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[SheltieLover]

1. How did I know Kraznov's regieme would be against decency?

[Dave Bowman]

2. K&R

[2naSalit]

3. K&R

[JT45242]

4. A lot of abstentions from other slave states -- is it the 'gravest crime'? Heinous, yes -- gravest, not sure (semantics

Given the wars of conquest that have occurred in history with oppression and high taxes dating back to several thousands of years BCE, I am honestly not sure that slavery is the gravest crime.

Genocides, literally millennia of fighting over the same pieces of land, etc, etc. Slavery is one of the greatest crimes for certain but there is almost no limit to the depravity that humans inflict on each other.

But interesting to note that a nation state created because of guilt over genocide that has specific moral and legal laws that condemn slavery because of enduring slavery in Egypt voted against it as well.

Even if I was unsure of the semantics of the greatest crime, I would vote for the resolution.

[Disaffected]

5. Agreed and,

I wonder about what occurred before recorded history. Not too hard to imagine various hominids duking it out amongst not just themselves but with tribes of humanoid variants. Evolution is a hard taskmaster......

[malaise]

6. Their empires were built from slavery

No surprise

[Auggie]

8. It's a tie with a few others

[leftstreet]

7. DURec

[Joinfortmill]

9. About damn time.

Our government sucks

[Buzz cook]

10. I would have said aggressive war

But slavery will do.

[spanone]

11. We're #1

Of course it was and shame on trmp for voting it down. Fifty-two countries are scared of him.