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Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade (www.theguardian.com)

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Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

They're demanding reparations from the royal family, not the british empire. Apparently, they can trace financial benefits from the 1700s to King Charles III.

Your proposed defense is basically that the practice of theft has been discontinued and that others were also thieves at that time.