Sunday, December 10, 2023

LOL: “Barbados Prime Minister Demands $4.9 Trillion in Slavery Reparations”

Breitbart reports that the PM of Barbados, speaking at the London School of Economics, said that former 
slave trading colonial powers, should pay Barbados $4.9 trillion in preparations.

    “We’re not expecting that the reparatory damages will be paid in a year, or two, or five because the extraction of wealth and the damages took place over centuries. But we are demanding that we be seen and that we are heard,” Mottley said according to the left-wing Guardian newspaper.

    The Barbadian prime minister cited figures compiled by the Boston-based Brattle Group, which has claimed that Britain owes $24 trillion to 14 different countries over the transatlantic slave trade. The group has also asserted that France owes $9.2 trillion, the Netherlands owes $4.86 trillion, and Spain owes $17.1 trillion for their roles in slavery.

Since the alternative would have been that their ancestors would have died enslaved in Africa or sold to Muslim slavers and perished in the Middle-East, Mottley is essentially arguing reparations for "wrongful life"--that is, they would have been better off having never been born than to live in Barbados. 

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