YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDutch king and queen are confronted by angry protesters on visit to a slavery museum in South Africaapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down111
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minus-squareSarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoDoes that mean you just never visit a country poorer than you lest someone on the internet decides there’s a problem with it? How do we expect elites to understand things if we get mad at them for seeing it first hand?
minus-squareUnspecificGravity@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI’m not the head of state of a nation that built my personal wealth from the slave trade.
Does that mean you just never visit a country poorer than you lest someone on the internet decides there’s a problem with it?
How do we expect elites to understand things if we get mad at them for seeing it first hand?
I’m not the head of state of a nation that built my personal wealth from the slave trade.
I would hope not.