SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: the compensation was paid to owners "because that was the only way to achieve abolition."

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Sony Thăng

Konstantin, you said the compensation was paid to owners "because that was the only way to achieve abolition."

Sit with what you just said.

The people who had committed one of the largest sustained crimes in human history had to be paid to stop committing it.

And you are presenting this as evidence of Western moral achievement.

The extortionist who stops robbing you after you pay him his asking price is not demonstrating virtue.

He is demonstrating that his moral position was always conditional on the price.

The West did not end slavery because it concluded slavery was wrong.

It ended slavery when the political and economic pressure made ending it less costly than continuing it, and then it charged the bill to the public, not to the people who had profited for more than two centuries.

You have described this accurately.

You have interpreted it entirely backwards.

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Konstantin Kisin

@KonstantinKisin

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Very good example of the lies anti-Western activists love to tell:

The claim that Britain only paid off slavery compensation in 2015 is false — and the person who spread it has admitted it.

The claim that "British taxpayers were paying off slavery compensation until 2015" went x.com/nxt888/status/…