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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 399939" data-attributes="member: 33">None of this would affect me personally either, but it's the right thing to do.I'm sorry but I don’t see why this is  relevant to the need for reparations. When the Nazi plundered the art, gold, silver, money and cultural items of great significance, after World War 2, there was general agreement that what was stolen should be returned. This is the same principle. More people were killed in the transatlantic slave trade than were killed in the Nazi Holocaust and it went on for considerably longer. There was no discussion about what the Jews would do with their wealth once it was returned to them. Hypotheticals about what they would have done with their possessions had the Nazis not taken them was never an issue. It shouldn't be for former colonised countries to justify getting what is rightfully theirs.</blockquote>