Monday, March 30, 2026

The UN Is Ridiculous

 https://x.com/wil_da_beast630/status/2037691526210277435?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/Lewisrendell1/status/2037417214832238990

The UN just voted 123-3 to declare the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity” and start sniffing around for reparations. Ghana led the charge, naturally. Applause erupted. Of course it did! What a shit show 😂 Africans didn’t just participate in the slave trade, they ran the supply side with ruthless efficiency. Tribal kings rounding up rivals, Arab traders shipping them, selling their own flesh and blood for beads, guns, and profit centuries before a Yankee clipper showed up."

 Lewis B RendellThe Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade isn't even the worst slave trade. "It was Very Bad, but I'd rank slave trades in this order: 1.) Arab Slave Trade (in blacks and whites) 2.) Roman Slave Trade 3.) Aztec/Tlaxcalan "120 year trade in humans as meat" 4.) Trans-Atlantic Trade 5.) Muslim trade in defeated Hindu Indians 6.) Barbary Slave Trade Should I keep going?"

Wilfred Reilly

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 "The Arab Slave Trade was 17 million, the Barbary Trade another 2-3. Glad to drop sources. Note the dodgy "colonialism means ships" language, where "forced (specifically) maritime migration" was subbed in for "slave trade." The Arabs just cut your cock off and made you walk across the Sahara, sure."

Wilfred Reilly

 https://x.com/calumdouglas1/status/2037669252287627300?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

"Slavery began in large form soon after humans first began to settle into collective organized groups large enough to be called what we could call towns (this refers to the number of people involved not the sophistication of the buildings). However scholars state that slaves probably existed in small numbers even before this. This occured absolutely everywhere on earth, later vast numbers were taken by Arabs, where extremely large numbers died as many of them were required for Hareems (Islamic designated areas for Women only) where the males had to be eunuchs so they did not interfere with the Arab women. The Arab slave traders cut off the genitals with knives and the ones still alive once they`d walked over the desert to the ships were taken away. The huge attrition rate was irrelevant as the price paid for Eunuchs was enough to offset those who bled to death in the sand for whom very little had been paid. So they simply took far more than were needed, knowing that the final price was worth it, and was far less effort than looking after those medically who had been mutilated. Some alternatively had their genitals cut off in designated rooms at the ports, and were simply thrown overboard when they died. When Europeans arrived, they didnt even have to travel inland or "take" slaves, as they simply contacted the african warlords who were already selling slaves from local rival tribes, the Europeans were merely the latest buyers to arrive. It is estimated that about 90% of all slaves Europeans removed from Africa, were simply purchased upon arrival there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_i The first nations to decide that this was no longer tenable were Iceland and Norway, however these were internal policies with no external effects, more serious measures were taken by Haiti and Denmark, who actually included abolition of the transatlantic trade. Britain began stopping the trade with the The Slave Trade Act of 1807. Later the British Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 represented the FIRST legislative act in the world, which not only began the process of banning the internal use of slaves, AND the trade, but also included active external use of military force to STOP the practise elsewhere. The British expended significant military effort stopping the trade, and then eventually bought the freedom of the slaves in our lands, at immense cost in 1833, the loan was only paid off in 2015. (per correction by the author, this should be 2014) The British nation at the time spent the about 2% GDP for a considerable time on stopping slavery. About three thousand Royal Navy personell were involved in this interdiction effort. It is difficult to make exact figures, but the largest slave users in known history since reasonable records began was the Roman Empire, with about 10 to 15 million slaves at the peak of the empire in captivity, which were mostly white European in origin with countless nationalties, including Britons, Germans, Greeks and Spaniards, some africans were also used. unrv.com/slavery.php The second most prolific users of slaves were Arab/Islamic nations, with about 11 > 18 million slaves in use, spanning well over a thousand years of exploitation. These were taken from Africa, India and Europe, and included many white europeans. soamibooks.com/post/the-islam The third was the Portuguese Empire, which is estimated to have taken about 6 million slaves from Africa specifically. statista.com/statistics/115 The forth was the British empire which took about 3 million slaves, mostly from Africa over about 170 years. slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/artic The fifth was the French empire, which took about a million slaves, mostly from Africa. encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/transa Unlike the Arabian and Islamic nations who used slaves for well over a thousand years, Britain in just 170 years went from using slavery, to banning and then bring the first to militarily enforce this ban internationally. We do not know exactly how many black Africans over time were enslaved by other black Africans for use internally within Africa, but we know it was utterly endemic to the societies there, and was was vast in scope. Estimates range from 25% to 75% of Africans in different parts of Africa for a large period in history existed on some level essentially as slaves to other Africans, although some had better life conditions than others and in some regions could expect after a long period of service to possibly be released. ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/ I hope this leaves you marginally better informed about this terrible period in human history, which, is still very much ongoing in many parts of the world today."

 

 https://x.com/CalumDouglas1/status/2037673974331789706

 "The notion that "the slave trade drive the industrial revolution in Britain" is not supported by the data, Slavery profits peaked at about 0.2 to 0.5% GNP at the absolute peak of the slave trade in Britain, and were mostly centred around cotton. It was therefore a measuable, but actually small part of the Industrial Revolution."

 

 

 
To single out one relatively short lived aspect of the "slave trade" for censure, while failing to do anything about actual enslaved people in 2026 is the kind of hypocrisy we have come to expect from the UN.  

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