Yesterday, a Declaration of the trafficking of enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity was voted at UNO. As usual, Israel and the USA voted against. How did your country vote? Any thoughts about it?
Abstaining means no in my book
I don’t know it can either mean political cowardice or a political compromise. None of those options are meant to be flattering but to me, if the vote was close I would have been angrier about an abstention.
You only posted half of the title.
Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity
Fixed.
Cries quietly in Indigenous slaughter
the thread on .world about this one is pretty gross.
I wonder why…
“against :3” they’re using that emote in UN votes now?
So Serbia is the only European country with balls?
Turkiye also voted in favor. I get the reservation, but it’s EU.
Well Turkie has notoriously independent politics despite being in NATO(and EU candidate lol) so no surprise here at all.
Fair.
Maybe Turkey’s balls are located east of the Bosporus strait
So the US voted against so it didn’t pass, yet again, I presume?
Fuck veto voting
This isn’t the Security Council. Nobody gets a veto.
Abstention might as well be an against vote
the UK:
If you know the us votes against anyways, why abstain?
My disappointment in the US continues to be consistent and expected.
i sometimes wonder how the us will develop in some future where the petrodollar is no longer the world’s currency; would it be like the uk/netherlands/belgium still clinging to colonialism or will it be spain/portrugal still trying to cling onto colonialism despite not being part of the club anymore.
What does this vote achieve?
It’s meant to help get reparations for imperialized people
Always about money. It’s a shame it draws attention away from the 50 million living people who exist in modern slavery today.
It’s not about money, either. The USA doesn’t give a fuck about international law. It’s been like this at least from the WWII to date. They could have voted yes, and then keep giving three fucks about reparations. If anything, it does draw attention to modern slavery.
Ah cool. I get Canadas vote then, kinda support it but poor wording. Among the gravest or something similar, Holocaust and Palestine should be up there.
Which is fucked, it’s like generational violence but an entire people instead of a family
It is four centuries of colonial violence, being kidnapped, stripped of your language, culture and humanity, tortured and raped and forced you and your descendants for hundreds of years to work to death just so that your owners could afford to not do anything productive. I can see how it’s the gravest. If people are gonna use this as an excuse not to care for other crimes against humanity they’re sadistic fools and should be called out as such.
It’s the sad reality of politics and agreements, simple wording can screw you over in ways you don’t yet see. Id be very interested to see what difference among the gravest would make. I’d be very disappointed in Canada to abstain then. And curious if any supporters change their vote.
USA I made a little poem
Our president is child Making our reputation be defiled Seen as a big whiny bully While hiding his crimes obscurely
Trump is just confirming the reputation US already had
It’s the Same Map As Always, USA + vassals Vs Rest of the World.
Is it? It’s not really subtle.
The yearly vote about blockade on Cuba is kind of an exception, even EU and the Oceanian Plankton usually vote “for”.
My favourite is the voting about combating the glorification of nazism, really says all
USA doesn’t have vassals. If it did, they’d be helping them bomb Iran right now.
If the EU weren’t vassals they’d be importing fuel from Russia and solar from China, not because of ideals or whatever but because of practicality and (in the case of solar) to avoid climate collapse
I don’t support the “Gravest Crime against Humanity” wording in the resolution, so I have no problems with the way my country voted.
It’s not wording.
