Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Should the Netherlands Apologize for its History of Slavery?" video.

  1.  @HistoryHustle  I do believe the media in general and even the superficial WNL have been pretty one-sided, and this also seems to be the fashion among historians. - The calculation of the profits from the slavetrade you mentioned is flawed and done to have the highest outcome possible. - The Arab, Ottoman, Barbaric and African (Ghanaian) slave trade are ignored. - The fact that the Republic was already very rich before in entered the slave trade or even started to make profit from Indonesia is ignored. Even Piet Hein, an opponent of slavery and opression, who has freed slaves and has been enslaved himself gets slandered. Just like the whole fact that the WIC refused to get in the slavetrad for ethical reasons until it felt forced to do so (on conditions). - There's this constant repitition of the statement that we got rich by colonization and slavery, which is simply false. And there is suggestion as there was slavery in the Netherlands itself. - A lot of false statements, like the Netherlands was one of the last countries to abolish slavery. They weren't among the first European nations, that's true and quite embarassing, but many countries were much later. But anything goes these days, facts don't matter. - The whole recent history of the Netherlands of antiracism and equality is denied. Like it was the USA out here in the 50's and 60's. - The Dutch media in general are fully committed to join and enforce the hype. Half the papers are about racism or what is supposed to be racism, the public broadcaster has rearranged all scheduals for weeks to support the narrative.  This is all catering to the BLM idea of white people bad racist and black people innocent victims. As you point out this might lead to the absurd situation that people who have actually done forced labour (German occupation) or descent from people who have been enslaved by North-Africans, have to apologize to people who never had to do forced labour and who descent from slavetraders, just because one is white and the other one is black. I'd call that racist.
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