John Cleese: The British were slaves during the Roman occupation for over 300 years, and then slaves under the Norman French for another 300 years. So we should do well out of reparations, and then get a bonus for being the first country to abolish slavery - Kotaku In Action 2

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John Cleese: The British were slaves during the Roman occupation for over 300 years, and then slaves under the Norman French for another 300 years. So we should do well out of reparations, and then get a bonus for being the first country to abolish slavery (twitter.com)

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– Smith1980 1 point 30 days ago +1 / -0

Honestly at this point it’s safe to tell anyone whining about reparations to shut up and move on with life. I think it was Sowell who said if you want to play the reparations game then there would be a lot of wealth transfers between a whole lot of countries

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