The Slave Trade

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The Slave Trade; are you sorry?
Topic Started: 27th March 2007 - 03:01 PM (367 Views)
Milgod	27th March 2007 - 03:01 PM Post #1
Giver of REBELOVE !!! Posts: 21,973 Group: Moderator Member #346 Joined: 30 March 2004	As its now 200 years since Britain made slave-trading illegal there has been a lot of talk on the subject recently. Many have voiced opinions stating that the UK should apologise (through Tony Blair) for their part in the slave trade. Is it really fair though for our generation to apologise for something it had no part in? Who would we apologise too? You don't see many people asking for Normandy to apologise for the Norman Invasion or the Vikings for sacking many towns they came across.



cuppy	27th March 2007 - 03:11 PM Post #2
Friendliest Poster 2006 Posts: 31,374 Group: Moderator Member #23 Joined: 23 November 2003	Stuff like this is really silly. You can't hold people accountable for what other people did. I don't hold this generation of germans responsible for the WW2 so why should I be held accountable for something that happened 200 years ago?



aksattee	27th March 2007 - 04:29 PM Post #3
Most well behaved Posts: 6,723 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: 23 November 2003	Totally agree that different generations cannot really appologise for the act done by previous regimes. All the current govenment can do is accept and condemn the deeds those people carried out all those years ago.



Deleted User	27th March 2007 - 04:40 PM Post #4
Deleted User	We should just tell them to fuck off and stop playing the victim!
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Fitz	27th March 2007 - 04:42 PM Post #5
Perfectly formed member Posts: 15,305 Group: Moderator Member #183 Joined: 30 January 2004	Jimbo Mar 27 2007, 03:40 PM We should just tell them to fuck off and stop playing the victim! Gosh, you did get your homework done quickly today.



Wickywhite	27th March 2007 - 06:32 PM Post #6
best all-rounder Posts: 14,962 Group: Moderator Member #10 Joined: 23 November 2003	I, like the others who have already commented, don't see how an apology from our generation can mean anything when this happened so many years ago. What I feel would be a fitting tribute is to free others in the world from what is effectively slavery. Women who are trafficked for prostitution, children working for a pittance to make our cheap clothing- there are still many examples of slavery in the world.



Mugsey	27th March 2007 - 06:38 PM Post #7
100% Leeds Posts: 17,043 Group: Members Member #378 Joined: 11 May 2004	Wickywhite Mar 27 2007, 05:32 PM I, like the others who have already commented, don't see how an apology from our generation can mean anything when this happened so many years ago. What I feel would be a fitting tribute is to free others in the world from what is effectively slavery. Women who are trafficked for prostitution, children working for a pittance to make our cheap clothing- there are still many examples of slavery in the world. i just want to free myself from being a wage slave and then i'll be happy.



Matt	28th March 2007 - 12:06 PM Post #8
Dee's a liar.... Posts: 10,978 Group: Members Member #122 Joined: 14 January 2004	I think you should start with apologies for things you're doing wrong now then maybe look at things from the past. "Slavery" as it was once deemed has been abolished but as Wicky says how about the slavery that is happening now?



White Paul	9th May 2007 - 05:22 PM Post #9
This is how the RD500YPVS would look if it were still made today Posts: 5,040 Group: Members Member #140 Joined: 22 January 2004	The one thing that winds me up about these apology seekers s that they make no mention about how bloody great their life is now and that none of them, not one, would swap their life in the UK or America and go back to living in the 3rd world. Yes, slavery was and is wrong but at the time people didnt see that. Soon after they realised that these people who were being enslaved were as human as anyone else it was stopped it. I wonder what these apology seekers real aims are though? Social unrest maybe?



perseus	13th October 2007 - 09:01 AM Post #10
Team Favourite Posts: 118 Group: Members Member #652 Joined: 17 December 2004	MORE SLAVERY THAT NEEDS APOLOGIZING FOR? Sure, I'll say sorry but how about they say sorry too?



Sir Quej Of Quejdom	15th October 2007 - 01:52 PM Post #11
100% Leeds Posts: 1,611 Group: Members Member #414 Joined: 4 June 2004	Jimbo Mar 27 2007, 03:40 PM We should just tell them to fuck off and stop playing the victim! As much as it pains me to say so, I am with Jimbo on this. This country has become a "bend over and take it up the arse" state and it is about time we stopped being so "apologetic" for things that happened centuries ago. I also think we should tell them to go fuck themselves.



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