Glasgow Uni to pay £20 million in slave reparations

[BowdonUK]

I'm surprised there is no GD thread so far on this story.

Glasgow University to pay £20m in slave trade reparations
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/23/glasgow-university-slave-trade-reparations

Glasgow University's 'bold' move to pay back slave trade profits
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49435041

So if Glasgow Uni ever starts putting up tuition fees and complaining they don't have enough money, remind them of this episode.

 

[Nitefly]

Eh, it’s just a charitable cause isn’t it? What don’t you like about it?

 

[builder22]

I saw it on thew news last night...it seems like dredging up the past to me, but I'm not affected by any of it so who knows

 

[Jokester]

I would hardly call it reparations either, they've commited basically to set up a new history department at the university iteslf and put a nice spin on it.

 

[CREATIVE!11]

Ok, now what?

 

[200sols]

I would hardly call it reparations either, they've commited basically to set up a new history department at the university iteslf and put a nice spin on it.

I would call it politically correct spin.

 

[Roar87]

Why do people in 2019 owe debts for things people did 200+ years ago lol. How much does Germany owe Britain for making us lose our Empire post WW2? I'll just take a new BMW M5 please

 

[Hotwired]

£20m over 20 years split across two sites - Glasgow and the Caribbean to "sponsor research work and raise awareness of the history of slavery and its impact around the world"

Right. That means funding an education department in two locations.

Reparations my ass, everyone in the historic slave trade is generations dead and this is a university doing university things then deciding they can cram a PC label on it.

 

[wesimmo]

Why do people in 2019 owe debts for things people did 200+ years ago lol. How much does Germany owe Britain for making us lose our Empire post WW2? I'll just take a new BMW M5 please

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations

 

[RxR]

£20m over 20 years split across two sites - Glasgow and the Caribbean to "sponsor research work and raise awareness of the history of slavery and its impact around the world"


Right. That means funding an education department in two locations.

Reparations my ass, everyone in the historic slave trade is generations dead and this is a university doing university things then deciding they can cram a PC label on it.

I agree

 

[Roar87]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations

Yes I don't think the UK having some POWs help with farming for a year quite covers the loss of the British Empire funnily enough

 

[coa9991]

So if a white person who never faced discrimination is descended from a black slave from Jamaica 200 years ago, does s/he get reparations? They wouldn't exist at all if not for that black slave, so they are a product of slavery.

 

[wesimmo]

Yes I don't think the UK having some POWs help with farming for a year quite covers the loss of the British Empire funnily enough

Hyperbole.

It was more than that.

The Empire started to fall apart, quite rightly, as a consequence of the war, but to make Germany pay for that doesn't make any sense. That we forced countries under our control to fight and pay for our war, righteous as it was, is what broke up the Empire if we're being simplistic about it.

 

[coa9991]

Germany paid reparations in both wars since it lost. nothing more to it than that.
I'd argue the fall of Empire, and all the European colonial systems such as France, Belgium, Spain, was more than WWII. if WWII didn't happen, then there would have been far more harsh and oppressive anti-colonial wars than Vietnam or the Mau-Mau Rebellion. Gandhi had his major successes before the war started.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Why do people in 2019 owe debts for things people did 200+ years ago lol. How much does Germany owe Britain for making us lose our Empire post WW2? I'll just take a new BMW M5 please

Ironically we’re still paying for the a Napoleonic Wars. The sovereign debt is still being paid and even the current interest rates aren’t low enough to make it worth buying them out. Although I think we did just buy out the last of the World War One debt.

 

[Mr Jack]

As far as I can tell the uni is going to use this money to fund a department for themselves. Reparations paid to yourself aren't reparations, they're a fund raising stunt.

 

[Stephanie Peterson]

Meh, they have enough money to pay out 10 times that.

 

[Diddums]

Never knew there was any education in Glasgow.

 

[Efour]

Reparations is such a good word to say.

 

[Moley]

As a direct descendant of Irish Catholics who do I see for my reparation payments?