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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
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Australia was one of the 52 nations that abstained and that has drawn criticism from the left. However, I think that there's merit in Britain's argument that it is wrong to "create a hierarchy of historical atrocities"...............................
I think we need to be wary, as per the Trump/Jacinta/Albanese comparison, of falling into the trap of false equivalence. The list of atrocities by humans is seemingly endless, but some are indisputable worse than others. The point that "all slavery is bad, why should slave trade x get the attention", has been discussed a lot. In scope, duration, contemporaneous and enduring trauma and devastation caused, and a whole bunch of other effects, the Euro American slave trade is without equal.
Releasing everyone on bail.