YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoDutch king and queen are confronted by angry protesters on visit to a slavery museum in South Africaapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square120linkfedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down112
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minus-squareSarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years 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-up1·2 years 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.