'Most of us are tired of it': Douglas Murray slams 'sick' calls for slavery reparations

the problem is we've forgotten how to be genuinely proud of our great countries both America and United Kingdom two of the greatest countries in the world it's almost like every day now somebody somewhere normally on the left the woke left is queuing up to find a reason to hate the countries and their histories well it's it's a kind of grievance competition your guests earlier just tried to engage in it I don't know what hurts she believes she's had from slavery all of this was addressed two centuries ago everything has consequences all history has consequences and ramifications but you know if we were to play this fairly we would at least look at all of the countries around the world that engaged in the slave trade who are simply not interested in any form of reparations that the the Ottoman Empire all the Arab countries who not just traded far more slaves and across the Atlantic but castrated all the men so that there wouldn't be any more African slaves in after them they worked on the bone I see no interest across Africa in paying reparations for selling their brother and sister Africans into slavery or for working them to the Bone to the present day there is slavery across Africa today in fact there are more slaves in the world today than there were at the height of the transatlantic slave trade so some of us are simply a bit bored of hearing people ripping at closed wounds and then crying saying about their hurt or their presumed hurt because everybody could do this a million Europeans were stolen by North Africans over the course of decades over the North African Barbary pirate slave trade where would you end if you did that the answer is you couldn't end because nobody is alive who has actually suffered the hurt and nobody is alive who did the wrong and I'd make one other point if I may it's always the countries that people want to come to who are put through this struggle session Britain like America and France are among are the most desired destinations for migrants worldwide and have been for centuries why is that it's not because we're racist it's because we're better it's because we're good it's because when we see racism we actually call it out and recognize it as a sin try finding that across Africa try finding that across the middle east or in China nobody would hear so what we have is a situation where the more virtuous countries are presented as the worst countries it's sick and most of us are tired of it thank you Douglas I am so sorry that Douglas is bored by the pain that has come that's not what he said through slavery he didn't say he didn't say it but what you're doing there but hang on Paulie you're being very disingenuous that's not what he said the viewers aren't stupid they know they know exactly what he said he's not saying he's bored by the pain he's saying and I think it's a perfectly valid point the pain that people who are alive today are claiming their suffering so what happened two or three hundred years it's not a real pain they're not the ones who suffered what was going on 200 years ago so in terms of justice for all I mean I think we'd all agree that well I'm not suffering for when the Norman's invaded this country I'm not suffering from what my ancestors went through I noticed I've not been allowed to respond all from the Romans in other words where do you take this I mean should I now be feeling okay what the Romans did to this in terms of slavery I can take it to 2015 when the slave owners were common stated by the government so I can take it to that what is your personal thing and I can say to you and I can say to you that I don't think that apologizing is a bad thing I think that apologizing for a wrong is a good thing I think that the um Dutch royal family have done a fantastic thing in acknowledging I think all right what has gone okay but I honestly think it'll make no difference at all

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Published: Wed Jul 05 2023