Over the past few days, I’ve heard a number of complaints about hypocrisy and double standards in response to Henry Nowak. Some of them are, I think, unfair. No, prominent people have not “taken the knee” as they did in response to the George Floyd murder. However, that was a very specific symbolic response and… Continue reading On double standards
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Slave Trade whataboutery ethics
As someone with a particular interest in the history of the slave trade and abolition, I was intrigued by this tweet about a different aspect to the story. We focus primarily on the trans-Atlantic Slave trade which saw black Africans trafficked to the Americas, Caribbean and Britian. However, there was a history of Europeans being… Continue reading Slave Trade whataboutery ethics
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