“The Greatest crime in the modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference.
Charming English ladies financed the Atlantic slave trade by buying shares and bonds in the London stock exchange, without ever setting foot in either Africa or the Caribbean.
They then sweetened their four o’clock tea with snow-white sugar cubes produced in hellish plantations - about which they knew nothing.”
- Yuval Noah Harari
(Source: https://threader.app/thread/1291604088170221569)
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