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Dutch PM Apologises for 250 Years of Slavery
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| 20 Dec 2022
Posted on 12/19/2022 3:03:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday (Dec 19) officially apologised for 250 years of the Netherlands' involvement in slavery, calling it a "crime against humanity".
The apology comes almost 150 years after the end of slavery in the European country's overseas colonies, which included Suriname and islands like Curacao and Aruba in the Caribbean and Indonesia in the East.
In the first of the former Dutch colonies to react, Aruba's Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes accepted the apology, but others like the island of Sint Maarten said it would not.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apology; netherlands; slavery
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What about Belgium and it's royal family? They are descendants of Leopold II.
To: nickcarraway
How many Solomon Islands leaders have apologized for cannibalism?
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:04:03 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Comitia asinorum et rhinocerorum delenda sunt.)
To: nickcarraway
So let him and his family pay reparations if he’s so guilty
Did they enslave people, or simply purchase those that were already enslaved?
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:06:29 PM PST
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
To: nickcarraway
It’s not his apology to make. It’s not their apology to accept or reject.
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:07:30 PM PST
by
youngidiot
(Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
To: rfp1234
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:07:37 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: rfp1234
Only white people have to apologize.
“Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”
Muhammad Ali
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:08:32 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: rfp1234
And I don’t now anything about this man, but I am guessing he is not old enough to have been involved in this slavery.
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:09:07 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: ronnie raygun
BIG mistake.
Never apologize for something you didn’t do.
Now he’s gonna have to pay.
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:09:41 PM PST
by
Samurai_Jack
(This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
To: nickcarraway
Okay, apology accepted. Let’s not hear about it again.
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:14:51 PM PST
by
ConservativeInPA
(Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
To: nickcarraway
Travel expense reimbursement should be forthcoming as well...
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:18:38 PM PST
by
Jhadur
("You are not ready for immortality.")
To: ronnie raygun
So let him and his family pay reparations if he’s so guiltyYep, reparations, was the first thing I thought that he might be leaving himself open to.
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:19:48 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: rfp1234
Have the relatives of the people they ate apologized for giving them heartburn?
To: nickcarraway
When will Africans apologize for not collectively becoming an advanced culture over the last 200 years?
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:28:13 PM PST
by
jroehl
(And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
To: nickcarraway
Slave owners had an interest in keeping their property alive.
Belgium legalized abortion in 1990.
I suggest you apologize for what you are doing rather than what your distant ancestors did.
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:35:23 PM PST
by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: nickcarraway
i had no idea he was that old
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:35:35 PM PST
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: nickcarraway
Hey Mark you can’t apologize for the past you were not there
To: nickcarraway
String him up! That apology doesn’t give all those slaves any justice. Make the boy pay for what he did to them.
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posted on
12/19/2022 3:48:33 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
To: nickcarraway
WEF meets then the worlds sends money to every corruptocracy in the world, while we freeze and can’t afford basics. Same a Belgium.
We are in deep trouble.
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posted on
12/19/2022 4:30:01 PM PST
by
momincombatboots
(QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
To: nickcarraway
Same idiot killing Dutch farmers. Kill yourself.
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posted on
12/19/2022 4:34:15 PM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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