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They would have fared a lot better if … France didn’t saddle them with reparations for their independence … like what the entire article posted was about

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Maybe, playing counterfactual history is just a game. Would they have fared better had they never been brought to Haiti as slaves and had they remained in Africa?

Maybe they would've been taken as slaves to the Middle East. By the way, where are the black descendants of the African slaves taken to the Middle East? How do we pay them reparations?

There are some [0], but Arabs tended to castrate male slaves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Iraqis

The article is about Haitian slaves having to pay reparations to their enslavers. Nobody brought up reparations being paid to slaves except you.

Fine, but you didn't address any of my arguments

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