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Barbados debuts slavery reparations ‘manifesto’
“Manifesto” connotes, at least in the popular mind, a document accompanying some act of terrorism.
So it might be apropos here.
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Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for reparations over damage caused by hundreds of years of enslavement.
Mottley was speaking at a “historic” conference in Ghana to advance the push for reparatory justice after the United Nations adopted a landmark resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.
The manifesto, which she distributed at the conference, is an update of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) 10-point plan for reparations from former colonial powers. It introduces new issues including the disproportionate impact of slavery on girls and women.*
The plan includes a new specific call for compensation for gender-based violence, referencing data that suggests “women represented approximately 30% of the estimated 20 million Africans forcefully transported across the Atlantic Ocean”. It also mentions estimates that at least 1.2 million enslaved women experienced sexual violence.
*We all understand that Ghana probably isn’t a world leader in producing math surgeons, but let’s take a brief look at the claim of the “disproportionate impact of slavery on girls and women.”
According to the manifesto, 30% of the Africans enslaved were allegedly female, which would mean — unless we’re doing the gender goblinism “no one knows what a woman is” talking point — that 70% of the enslaved Africans were actually men.
In other words, men were disproportionately enslaved, which would directly contradict the claim to the contrary that women and girls were.
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It recalls to memory when notorious man-hater and rumored lesbian Hillary Clinton once claimed in 1998 that “women have always been the primary victims of war,” which would seem to fly in the face of the fact that men almost exclusively account for combat deaths in war:
The experience that you have gone through is in many ways comparable to what happens with domestic violence. Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.
The Barbados manifesto also, through some sophistic jiu jitsu that’s sure to impress progressives, somehow links “climate justice” with the demand for reparations cash — because why not just throw every Social Justice™ narrative at the wall and see what sticks?
Continuing:
The draft, which has been seen by the Guardian, asserts that climate justice and slavery reparations are “inextricably linked”, and stresses the need for a plan to support Indigenous people who were in the Caribbean when Europeans arrived and were the subject of genocides.
The document, which is still to be rubber-stamped by Caribbean governments, makes it clear that Caricom is demanding monetary compensation, in addition to other forms of repair such as a full and formal apology, from Britain and other European countries, and education and training.
Isn’t it interesting that these countries aren’t demanding compensation from the Arabic enslavers, who practiced their craft in Africa long before and after Europe got into and then exited the game?
The reason, of course, is that Saudi Arabia would tell them to pound sand, as they are free of the self-hate inflicted on the European world.
