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  • HISTORYExpand
    • The history they don’t tell you
    • Britain’s role: the full picture
    • The myths busted
  • WHO PAYS?Expand
    • Who pays? The racial levy problem
    • Narrowing the pool
    • The confused liability problem
    • The Windrush dimension
    • Does the money even work?
  • THE LAWExpand
    • The legal case that doesn’t exist
    • The government’s weak position
  • CARICOMExpand
    • CARICOM and the ten-point plan
    • What would actually be fair?
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    • Sources and further reading
  • Ask Wilberforce
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Home/The myths busted/Myth: Other countries have paid reparations so Britain should too/The one-line rebuttal
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  • The myths busted
  • Myth: White Britons inherited wealth built on slavery
  • Myth: Enslaved people were never compensated — that debt is still owed
  • Myth: The trauma of slavery is still damaging Caribbean communities today
  • Myth: Britain got rich because of slavery
  • Myth: Caribbean poverty today is a direct result of slavery
  • Myth: Reparations are owed because the labour was stolen
  • Myth: The compound interest calculation proves the scale of the debt
  • Myth: Britain stole Caribbean culture and identity
  • Myth: Other countries have paid reparations so Britain should too
    • The claim stated fairly
    • Why it sounds plausible
    • Why it does not hold up
    • The one-line rebuttal
  • Myth: Saying no to reparations means defending slavery
  • Myth: Anyone who opposes reparations has a colonial attitude
  • Myth: CARICOM's repatriation plan is a serious proposal
The myths busted

The one-line rebuttal

The precedents that exist involved living victims, recent events, and direct state liability. None of those conditions apply to the slavery reparations claim.

PreviousWhy it does not hold up

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  • HISTORY
    • The history they don’t tell you
    • Britain’s role: the full picture
    • The myths busted
  • WHO PAYS?
    • Who pays? The racial levy problem
    • Narrowing the pool
    • The confused liability problem
    • The Windrush dimension
    • Does the money even work?
  • THE LAW
    • The legal case that doesn’t exist
    • The government’s weak position
  • CARICOM
    • CARICOM and the ten-point plan
    • What would actually be fair?
  • SOURCES
    • Sources and further reading
  • Ask Wilberforce
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