Ghana’s President John Mahama has received the African Union’s backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic slavery as the ‘gravest crime against humanity.’
There is broad historical consensus that the transatlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries, which involved the kidnapping, enslavement and transport of millions of Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean, was one of the biggest tragedies in human history.
Why is it always the .world users?
Idk. I personally think the forced relocation and genocide of native Americans at the hands of the US government was the gravest crime against humanity, but slavery is pretty high up on my list too with the Holocaust and holodomor.
How would you compare that to the brutality of the Mongolian empire that spanned Asia to Europe?
Yeah, and you’re saying that the forced relocation and genocide of African people where they were then forced into chattel slavery doesn’t compare. Bro, why the fuck are you playing this game, dude?
They didn’t say it doesn’t compare, and they never suggested that the transatlantic slave trade wasn’t an atrocious crime against humanity.
The issue they’re criticizing is clearly the use of the superlative in this context, because it makes it about a competition between all the atrocities where there can only be one “biggest atrocity.”
The focus shouldn’t be on that. Each atrocity deserves focus, but not to the exclusion of others. It doesn’t matter whether chattel slavery, the holocaust, or the ethnic cleansing of the Americas was the “worst” atrocity. They were all atrocious.
That’s why using the superlative in this context is inappropriate, and it accomplishes nothing.
Cause what they are doing is using well known racist dog whistles.
Everything sounds like a dogwhistle when that’s all you ever want to hear…