Now the Australians are protesting

Coming from someone who spent alot of time in Melbourne this is exactly how white Australians are! Lots of offensive names they made up too for other groups of non whites or even white ppl from other countries. Massively entitled , hence why Australia has overwhelmingly rejected a plan to give greater political rights to Indigenous people in a referendum. Quoted from the bbc

@Starlia Let’s start with reparations for slavery

No, let's not.

You think black people should be paying compensation to slave owners.

The world is truly crazy.

Do you know any of your ancestors who directly suffered at the hands of the Romans or Vikings?

My husband is almost 89. He knew his grandfather who was the first generation in his family born a free man. He was born on the plantation where his family had been slaves. We can look at the stock books from that plantation and see the records of his family because they were recorded as stock like the horses and pigs. Not quite the same is it.

Perhaps do some research into why attitudes to slavery started to change around the end of the 18th century. You might be surprised at what you find.

exactly! The British history curriculum likes to focus on Elizabeth the first, Industrial Revolution, Skip over to WW1&-2 then Brits wonder why all the other nations who get taught about colonialism, the British man-made famines in Ireland, and how Britain royally fucked up in Africa, Palestine, India, Northern Ireland and everywhere else get pissed off about it.

No, it’s more likely it was spent to keep their own on side as they were unable to quell the unrest in the colonies, slavery was rightly collapsing and those that ‘owned’ slaves were rich and powerful so had to be kept happy.

I don’t believe for a second it was done out of the goodness of the British heart.

No AI used at all.

Historical facts, well documented.

What difference does it make where it came from? It was spent to free slaves. It didn’t have to be.

It was spent to free slaves because slavery had become unpalatable to the majority in Britain.

I know, ridiculous point… all that money was given to slave ‘owners’ as well, not a penny given to the formerly enslaved! And those that were ‘freed’ were actually still forced to work, without pay, for their former enslavers on an apprenticeship’ for many years afterwards… that £20m was literally just money for their boys, not an admirable act to end slavery.

@Elbowpatchi think you’re having a good time with pulling figures out of an AI platform today are you? 😅

@Starlia what is horrific?

Agreed. We’ve all benefitted from slavery, so we should all have paid.

It’s not fair to attack ANY community.

As a British Asian, I have defended my fellow Asians from racism and aggression from white people whatever their religion, whether Muslim, Sikh or Hindu.

Please don’t try and play this divide and conquer game.

British tax payers were paying off the loans that funded the compensation until 2015. Just think of all the descendants of slaves who were paying off those debts their whole working lives. Of course no compensation for the slaves.

From what I’ve read online my understanding is that Indian people are being targeted in Australia (and Canada) because there’s a belief that in recent years they have dominated/ received preference in regard to immigration into those countries.

There’s also a belief that on top of tech jobs being offshored to India, Indians are also moving to the West to take up jobs in large numbers.

I have also read that there is sentiment among some Australians and Canadian’s that once an Indian national gets a senior position/becomes a hiring manager they implement racist hiring practices to hire other Indians over others.

These are not my opinions, I don’t live in those countries but it’s stuff I’ve seen online. It looks like this has been bubbling under the surface for a while.

Are you serious? All that money was EARNT from slavery FFS!

So no one should be targeted.

There is no need to pretend.

The British spent a huge amount of money preventing slavery. Paying compensation to slave owners and stationing naval forces off the coast of Africa with no other purpose than to police its anti-slavery stance. That cost money, lots of it. Slave owners received approximately £20 million in compensation from the government in 1837. That is equivalent to nearly £2,000,000,000 in today’s money.

You don’t do that if all you are interested in is profit.

‘Not this again’?

Really?

The Irish were starved by the British but YOU think the Irish need to get over it???

Oh and the Irish need to remember not to bring it up in a thread about emigration?

I don’t think so.

Well.of course, but someone said it was the Sikh community that was targeted so.....

It's not really like that as you would know if you had spent time there.

Oh, please. Not this again. It was terrible and should never have happened but it was nearly 200 years ago and no one who is alive today had anything to do with it. The British government of the time behaved very badly, we know that, but many, many British people were also living at subsistence level at that time. My ancestors on one side of my family were coal miners in the north of England. They would have had short and very hard lives with not enough to eat.

Have a read of this.

https://www.historyhit.com/reasons-why-britain-abolished-slavery/

Slavery was proving to be an uneconomic model and this, along with other reasons including slave rebellions, led to the abolition of slavery in Britain.

No one should be targeted.

You'd think they'd realise unless they aren't very bright.

Then again in the 70s I worked with a woman who was moaning about waiting In a queue behind black people. She was most indignant as she told me her father fought in WWII to keep this country (England ) white. She was surprised when I told her the Nazis were the racists not the British.