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Re:Haiti’s President Is Assassinated by the_af on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:09PM (#27762709)
Who brought the black Haitians to Haiti? Did they stay there voluntarily during white European rule?

Details matter.

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Re:Haiti’s President Is Assassinated by concordDance on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:50PM (#27763189)
I don't see how being brought to Haiti matters. Imagine some white settlers brought as children who have just become young adults. Do they need to go back to France?
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Re:Haiti’s President Is Assassinated by the_af on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:39PM (#27763762)
> I don't see how being brought to Haiti matters

It does matter if they were brought as slaves and against their will, and made by force to call Haiti their home. I hope you see the difference between this and the children the settlers brought with them. Comparing children to slavery is nonsense.

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Re:Haiti’s President Is Assassinated by mustafa_pasi on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:03PM (#27763347)
The point is not that they were in Haiti. The point is that they were engaging in slavery, and they had the freedom not to.

I was not making any statements on settler colonialism which is a separate issue entirely. I was just saying, the French cannot claim be victims when they were the ones engaging in slavery.

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