Should King Charles stump up?

[faferandom]

All this talk of reparations from one of the world’s richest men!!!! I don’t think the British taxpayer should stump up, but I do think the King could sell a palace and fund permanently a huge amazing high school for the Caribbean….thoughts?

Great moral thought leadership there 👏

@faferandom “All this talk of reparations from one of the world’s richest men”

do you mean King Charles? I can’t find any reference to him talking about reparations. Apart from anything else, I don’t think he would take the risk.

Can you show me the quotes of all this "talk of reparations". As far as I can see the King has talked of nothing of the sort.

I’m suggest that our King might like to - himself.

And I pointed out that the Prime Minister has made it clear that it is a matter for the government. Are you suggesting that the King should ignore his Prime Minister?

No you’re right. He sort of fluttered around it.

You mean he carefully avoided saying it at all?

No I’m not. But you’ve got to admit, that’s pretty handy for him isn’t it? BTW other than Norway, our king enjoys some of the biggest tax exemptions of all the royal families in Europe.

It was a question. Have they?

Yeah...

And the African nations that rounded up the Africans who were sold into slavery.

Oh but only the ENGLISH are bad. 🙄

No one should be paying. It’s ridiculous. Let’s cease all foreign aid to them now.

It is ridiculous. No one alive today is old enough to remember either being or owning a slave. Get the fuck over it.

This. ^ And no-one alive today was affected by it, so they need to stop asking for money from us.

Absolutely.

Take a holiday to Antigua and publicly pipe that POV - see how popular you are!

That's not what it's about. It's about the disadvantages that dependents face becuase of slavery. Deep-seated economic, physical and mental health, and social impacts. Reparations are thoroughly impractical, but to say that decendents of slaves are unaffected by slavery is astonishingly ignorant.

Why on earth would I do that? What an odd suggestion.

@faferandom Not everyone is going to agree with you, you do get that do you not?

That happens sometimes, people disagree on things... And no amount of badgering and sarcastic comments will change someone's minds, and their beliefs.

HTH.

Yep, I'm fucking sick of it...

is it? If you stand by your view why not openly share it to the people who feel most impacted?