Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
French octogenarian, probably not long for the world, apologizes for family’s historic role in transatlantic slavery as final act of self-sacrifice on the altar of Social Justice™
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
An 86-year-old man has issued what is believed to be the first formal apology by someone in France for their family’s role in transatlantic slavery.
Pierre Guillon de Prince’s ancestors were shipowners based in Nantes, the country’s largest port for transatlantic slavery. They transported about 4,500 enslaved Africans and owned plantations in the Caribbean.
Guillon de Prince said on Saturday that other French families must confront their historical allegiances to slavery and the state should go beyond symbolic gestures to address the past, including through reparations.
He said: “Faced with the rise of racism in our society, I felt a responsibility not to let this past be erased.”
Guillon de Prince made the apology at a gathering in Nantes before the inauguration of an 18-metre replica ship mast, alongside Dieudonné Boutrin, a descendant of enslaved people from the Caribbean island of Martinique.
The two work together at the Coque Nomade Fraternité, an association dedicated to “breaking the silence” around slavery, and said the mast would serve as a “beacon of humanity”.
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Not that historical facts or context matter to these people, but France terminated institutionalized slavery way back in 1794 — becoming, in so doing, the first nation in world history to formally outlaw the hitherto near-universal practice across space and time since the dawn of civilization.
In 1848, following incomplete enforcement of the 1794 ban during the Bonaparte era, the Decree of the Abolition of Slavery completely finished off the practice in France as well as all of its colonies — several years before the United States did the same, as did the entire Western world.
If anything, the world owes a debt of gratitude to France for its moral clarity in leading the way on the nullification of any legal or moral right to own another human being.
The Arab world certainly wasn’t going to do it; many oil-rich Gulf countries still practice de facto slavery of Africans to this day.
The nations of the Orient weren’t, either; you can still, in fact, see the vestiges of rigid caste systems and even slavery in the culture today.The only reason the world, by and large, gave up slavery was because the West, which invented the legal and ethical concept of “human rights” upon which the true claim that slavery is immoral is founded, forced them to, both by soft cultural power and hard institutional power.
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Nonetheless, the alleged debt the West owes for slavery, of course, can never be paid — by design.
No matter how many elderly men are forced, either by the state or by their own propagandized consciences, to issue groveling apologies, the result will only be more and more demands for self-flagellation.
No matter how many Third World migrants the country imports, until Paris becomes indistinguishable from Benghazi, it will never be enough self-subjugation.
No matter how many of Europe’s daughters the natives offer up to be raped by migrants, they’ll just use them up and move on to the next goodie to pillage.
Europe itself is, ironically, now a slave colony.
The bitterest irony of all, though, is that they enslaved themselves — the controlled demolition of the civilization could not have happened solely from without — and handed the whip to their master with gusto.
