Honestly, the idea of slavery reparations has always seemed odd to me. Slavery is not something that destroyed other nations, Jamaica's economy and modern-day population are not poorer because of slavery. They are poorer because of colonialism. The two are interconnected, but not the same, as focusing on slavery ignores the damage we did to Asia.

Also, the African nations demmanding reparations are not the people harmed by slavery - Jamaican Brits have far more of a claim to reparations over slavery than the African nations themselves, which are made up of the ancestors of those who were not taken, and those who made money off selling their countrymen to us. 

Colonialism reparations feel far more valid, and even then, we're not in a good enough state economically at this point to pay back for all of the damage we did - and we can't, not really? And how do we know what the money sent will be spent on? Can we attached clauses to ensure it'll actually go to fixing the damage we caused?

As a secondary point, if we do do colonial reparations, what would make the most sense is not to tax British citizens. If we're going to globally co-ordinate this, as was asked, we should be going after the billion dollar companies that profitted off colonial exploitation. As a whole, the British government *lost* money through our conquests abroad. Most of the siphoning off when to private companies, massive ones which are still around and living off the money they made from colonialism.

And finally, the Transatlantic Slave trade is by no means the "Gravest Crime Against Humanity". it was awful, after the Holocaust, Native American Genocides, etc - is slavery undoubtably worse than genocide? And why ownly the Transatlantic Slave trade, not the Arab Slave trade too?

There needs to be justice for what the West did, but blank check reparations for the crimes that have left less of an impact on the people there are not the way to go about it.

But now I've said that, if we could do a Colonial Reperation Tax on conglomorates that benefitted from colonialism, that'd be great.

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