Exclusive: Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says treating these objects as collectors’ items ‘should be looked at in horror’
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260221072211/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/21/antiques-auction-selling-neck-shackles-accused-of-profiting-from-slavery
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isnt that the basis for the entire economy?
No silly, we call this capitalism. This is how it differs from slavery:
Where a ruling class with all the money and might controls the vast majority and extorts labour out of them for the privilege to not starve and get wet in the rain. Occasional pain and constant suffering are just byproducts.
No wait…never mind.
Lmao what a stupid argument, I’d buy them for that price
It is indeed a silly argument. It’s a piece of history. And rarely history is beautiful. Doesn’t mean it should be forgotten and every relic remaining be burned.
That’s because you’re a vile waste of biomatter
