Asklemmy

43898 readers

1223 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Do the governments of former white settler colonies (e.g. Australia, Canada, New Zealand) owe reparations to the descendants of their indigenous inhabitants? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by tomasz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] EdibleSource@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes.

Does Britain owe reparations as well? Their society benefited from exploiting the people and land in these places.

[–] CoinOperatedBoi@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

You could liquidate the entirety of what remains of the British Empire and distributing proportionately according to the populations of former colonies and it would amount to very little per country. That said, liquidating the monarchy and returning all of the stolen artifacts from their museums would be a good start