Glasgow University to pay £20m in slave trade reparations

Glasgow University has completed a “bold, historic” move to atone for its historical links to the transatlantic slave trade by paying £20m in reparations.

Reparations to those that were never slaves.....Great idea! 🙄

Mugs.

Dear gruniad it’s not actually réparations is it? Please don’t mislead in your headlines. We hold you to a higher standard

Well why don’t they start paying reparations for all the countries colonized by Britain they could make a start in Ireland

That's a start. Considering Great British Britain's enthusiasm for the Great British Slave Trade in building the Great British Empire that so many Great British Brits wet themselves over with nostalgia, it's a start. But only that.

I was leafing through their prospective. I can't decide; a degree in cuckoldry, or gender studies with BDSM, and transology.

There are children relying on food banks for meals, working people living on the breadline and we are self flagellating for historical acts that none of us were directly responsible for. What about addressing people in slavery now in nail bars, restaurant kitchens. Fucking nuts

That should buy a lot of hair shirts.

What stupid decision , to pay reparations for something that happened centuries ago...the leftists are destroying the UK

bs ..they just discovered they benefitted from slavery!!!

Such a waste of money. Send it to somewhere worthwhile

20 billion wouldn't have been enough...just saying!

Where are my reparations?

What a waste of money. This country has become a bloody embarrassment!

It wasn’t only white people who traded in slaves, Africans did as well. While I applaud the University’s generosity, calling it reparations absolves others from involvement in an insidious trade which was international and multiracial.

Waste of money

Has the entire world gone fruit cake? Who the fuck are they supposed to pay it to?

Slavery was started by africans who enslaved other africans, and then sold them to europeans, under who they usually had much better lives, and later who freed them. If there was no european slave trade, they would probably still be under tribal slavery now.

Slavery was started by africans who enslaved other africans, and then sold them to europeans, under who theybusually had much better lives, and later who freed them. If there was no european slave trade, they would probably still be under tribal slavery now.

Bravo bravo! DNA linked me to Ireland British I wouldn't of guessed in a million years!!

I look forward to receiving my reparations from the Celts, Romans, Danes, Norwegians, Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Normans.

UofGlasgow We should never be punished for the sins of our fathers, that said, this announcement stands out as a beacon of morality. True egalitarian spirit. I wish I had studied at GU.

Why? It’s in the past? The money could be used to help our goddamn planet

This is insane. Nobody endorses the evils and repercussions of the slave trade, but financial virtue signalling won't erase history.

Where's my reparations for the barbary slave trade?

Paying for something that was absolutely abhorrent but happened hundreds of years ago really

When the Brazilian Government will pay reparations to slave decendents?

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