Ghana’s President John Mahama has received the African Union’s backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic slavery as the ‘gravest crime against humanity.’
There is broad historical consensus that the transatlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries, which involved the kidnapping, enslavement and transport of millions of Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean, was one of the biggest tragedies in human history.
It’s not whataboutism when they’re on topic.
That topic again: what is the ‘gravest crime against humanity.’
The use of the superlative gravest invites conversation on what should be considered the ‘gravest crime against humanity.’
Why is it always the .world users?
Idk. I personally think the forced relocation and genocide of native Americans at the hands of the US government was the gravest crime against humanity, but slavery is pretty high up on my list too with the Holocaust and holodomor.
Yeah, and you’re saying that the forced relocation and genocide of African people where they were then forced into chattel slavery doesn’t compare. Bro, why the fuck are you playing this game, dude?
Cause what they are doing is using well known racist dog whistles.
How would you compare that to the brutality of the Mongolian empire that spanned Asia to Europe?