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by brnt 2273 days ago
The treatment of the native peoples is a subject I am very familiar with, far more than I'd like to. I have to count a murderer and torturer in my family because of this history. However, and perhaps I didn't make that clear, I was trying to respond to something else, GPs first line:

> Forcing colonialist countries to return their ill-gotten wealth is nothing but justice.

Even though I am a firm believer that we are not nearly doing enouhhto equalize wealth in general, that statement seems to be to be all about some sort of blood debt. That I cannot agree with, which I have tried to make clear.

The matter of these particular victims is in my view another one, and I wish the compensation would have come decades sooner (and any other victims that have died by now), and had been compensated much better, by trials preferably.

But that is a far cry from what I understood the GP meant with his or her post, in particular the first line.