Your first paragraph cannot be argued with. Hopefully we have learned and continue to do so.

The second is very dubious indeed. The link is less than convincing and some of the claims made have nothing to do with slavery, and are presented without any evidence.

It all depends on what you regard as slavery, which for me is a compulsion to do work imposed by one person on another without reward or willing agreement.

That said I know it exists. 20 years ago I helped someone escape from slavery in the Lebanon. It's a long story but they had gone there willingly, via an agency, to work as a domestic worker. They had their passport confiscated, received no pay, were expected to work from 4 am to midnight, slept on the kitchen floor, were not allowed to leave the premises and were sexually abused by the men in the house. When she did run away, when out shopping with her employer, she approached a policeman for help. He took them to the police station, where she was raped and then returned to her employer. It's a nasty world out there. Through a friend of hers I managed to get her embassy to find her, remove her and return her.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I said I agreed with your first paragraph!

Many of those whose distant relatives may have been landowners, with serfs and peasants on their land, which could include both of us, might say the current level of taxation is sufficient reparation!

As most of us, given the tangled web of ancestry, could trace our bloodlines to almost every human who ever walked the earth, if the resources existed to do it, none of us escape if you want to look back that far.

That fact, by the way, also makes a mockery of the "white race" claims that routinely surface in these pages. Not from you I hasten to add!

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

There have been a couple of re-enactment audio and video pieces. In my view he's seen one of those without realising and assumed it's real. So lying is pushing it, as I'm sure he believes what he's said, but at the same time logically it makes very little sense and so I would agree that the audio doesn't exist, and he should consider that perspective going forward.

Edited by footythoughts (04 Dec 2022 12.08am)

I'm sure he thinks he did, but rationally he very, VERY likely didn't. That appears to be a fair assessment.

Age might be a factor. There might be aspects of both 'my way or the highway' and misremembering, and that's probably a fair summation. I've seen a couple of physical threat and 'fronting up' type posts made to this elderly individual, so lean against belittlement in my reply. There is certainly a point to what you say though.

Edited by footythoughts (04 Dec 2022 6.41am)

I am a direct descendent of Edward III so I am screwed if serf reparations become a thing.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.