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As an Englishman I would like to point out, that the debt our Government took on to buy and free the empires slaves, was only finished being paid back in 2015. Every taxpayer in the UK was still paying towards it until that time. This is why I am against reparations for people who have never been slaves in their lifetime, or their parents lifetime.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. -Thomas Sowell

I had no idea the British were so involved in ending slavery and that Arab nations fought so hard to maintain it, it’s almost the opposite of what the message is today.

...The Ottoman Empire actually had performed several mass invasions of Eastern Europe, taking tens of thousands of slaves and enacting a Blood Tax (taxation in the form of slave “recruitment “) on subjugated regions. In fact, it was in these invasions of Eastern Europe that the historical figure Vlad the Impaler emerged, whom fought against the ottomans for his entire adulthood.