If a person feels guilt at the fact that their family fortune was based upon slavery, then the best thing they could do is to donate to organisations that combat modern human trafficking, rather than… (View Post)

Telling taxpayers they have to cough up twice the UK’s GDP so that a bunch of grifters can live in luxury would be a bold move on the part of any government. (View Post)

The masters ought to have compensated the slaves, as Thaddeus Stevens later suggested, in the USA. But that was politically impossible at the time. In effect, the slavers were paid a ransom. Waiting … (View Post)

FPT@cyclefree. Mass rape is a terror tactic, which goes beyond men seeing the women of the enemy as one of the spoils of war. It’s really a form of torture. (View Post)

I think it is more worrisome when this kind of thing comes from the intellectual elite than from people whose knuckles scrape the ground. (View Post)