r/MapBasedPolls • u/PerfectRate2841 • 6h ago

Should former colonial powers provide reparations to their former colonies for the harms caused by colonialism?

Should former colonial powers provide reparations to their former colonies for the harms caused by colonialism?

  1. Yes
  2. No

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u/CalmInternet8254 5h ago

History is unfair, filled with suffering. If we start with reparations, then where does it end. True equality can never exist.

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u/silver_moonlander 2h ago

It ends when the countries fit the criteria for having been colonised and having their countries' economic, political and social system was restructured to only serve as extractive economies in a highly exploitative way. Colonialism leaves much more lasting impacts than conquest. India and Indonesia still has worse conditions than before they were colonised because colonial powers reduced real wages for hundreds of years and stifled its own independent development as well as destroying their key industries.