>The Assembly adopted the text “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity” (document A/80/L.48) with a recorded vote of 123 in favour to 3 against (Argentina, Israel, United States), with 52 abstentions.

It's funny Argentina has fully joined the roster of being on the wrong side of everything.
By the way, the EU abstained, because they don't want any implication of having to pay reparations lol.

@chjara genuinely though

i read the reasoning and it’s like “we agree with it however you used this word wrong and also it’s unfair to apply laws to us retroactively even though we are the reason they exist in the first place :(”

@chjara There was a meme literally of this but the topic was puppies or something much less severe than actual slavery…

@emmy

@chjara if greece wasn't in the eu, it would be in the bunch as well

@charlotte @chjara Same reason the UN (primarily composed of imperializer nations at the time) voted to adopt the definition of genocide only if it couldn’t be applied retroactively. Since they knew a bunch of the stuff they had done fit under that….

@chjara look at our amazing “moral, rules-based order” 🙄