The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

A lesser-known part of the trade of enslaved people took place on the island of Saint Helena, which you may have learned about in school as the place where Napoleon was sent to live and die in exile after his defeat at Waterloo. No mention of its slave trade history