{"id":39484,"date":"2026-03-27T02:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloeckerblog.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/ny-un-resolution\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:39:55","slug":"ny-un-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloeckerblog.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/ny-un-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"NY UN Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_0093-34-768x1024.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21971\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit phb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><br \/>Whose Suffering Counts? | P.H. Bloecker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"blog-label wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bloecker.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bloecker.wordpress.com<\/a> &nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp; Essays on Life, Literature &amp; Ideas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whose Suffering Counts?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"subtitle wp-block-paragraph\">Slavery, the Holocaust, and the dangerous arithmetic of atrocity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"byline wp-block-paragraph\">by P.H. Bloecker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dateline wp-block-paragraph\">Gold Coast QLD Australia, 25 March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN General Assembly voted yesterday on a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the <em>gravest crime against humanity<\/em>. 123 nations voted in favour. Three voted against: the United States, Israel, and Argentina. 52 abstained \u2014 among them all 27 members of the European Union and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resolution is non-binding. It is political. And its most dangerous word stands in the superlative: <em>the gravest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because a superlative implies a ranking. And a ranking of human catastrophes inevitably raises a question that nobody in that chamber spoke aloud \u2014 but that everyone present heard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the slave trade worse than the Holocaust?<br \/>And is that even a question we are permitted to ask?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I. Frankl and Benjamin Were Jews<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent days I have been writing about Viktor Frankl and Walter Benjamin \u2014 two Jewish intellectuals from the German-speaking world, both caught in the machinery of the same annihilation, both witnesses to the absolute limit of human barbarism. Frankl survived Auschwitz. Benjamin died fleeing it, in a hotel room in Port Bou on the Spanish border, on the night of 25 September 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel voted No yesterday. That is not coincidental. The Israeli delegation read the same subtext every attentive observer read: the phrase <em>gravest crime against humanity<\/em> is an implicit hierarchy. And that hierarchy positions the slave trade \u2014 deliberately or not \u2014 above the Holocaust in the moral order of priority of the international community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is politically explosive. And philosophically untenable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">II. Can Crimes Against Humanity Be Ranked?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question is not academic. It has real consequences \u2014 for reparations claims, for international jurisprudence, for whose history appears in school curricula and whose pain becomes law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The historian Yehuda Bauer, one of the foremost Holocaust scholars of the twentieth century, argued throughout his career that the Holocaust was <em>sui generis<\/em> \u2014 a singular crime that could not be placed in a sequence with others. His argument: for the first and so far only time in history, a modern industrial state deployed its entire bureaucratic, military, and technological apparatus with the explicit aim not of subjugating a people, not of exploiting them, but of biologically erasing them from the earth entirely. No economic motive. No territorial logic. Annihilation as an end in itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transatlantic slave trade followed a different \u2014 no less brutal \u2014 logic. The enslaved were <em>valuable<\/em> precisely because they were alive and could work. The horrors were immense: dehumanisation, the destruction of families, the erasure of cultures, the creation of an inherited poverty that remains structurally operative today. But the goal was extraction, not extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does that distinction make one worse than the other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most serious ethicists answer: the question itself is the error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every human face presents an absolute, irreducible demand. You cannot weigh one face against another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"attribution wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Emmanuel Levinas, Holocaust survivor and philosopher<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elie Wiesel was more direct still: he refused all comparison. Every genocide, he argued, is unique to those who suffered it. To rank suffering is to diminish all suffering simultaneously \u2014 to treat the victims not as human beings but as data points in a comparative exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is also Frankl&#8217;s implicit position. His entire framework of Logotherapy rests on the absolute uniqueness of each human life and each human suffering. The logic of the <em>will to meaning<\/em> forbids the ranking of catastrophe \u2014 because meaning is not comparative. It is singular, concrete, unrepeatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">III. The Colonial Motherlands and Their Abstention<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet \u2014 the EU abstained. Britain abstained. The official argument was legal: the formulations in the text were too complex, the juridical implications too unclear, the respect for the subject matter too great to vote yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is diplomatic language for: we are afraid of the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Britain, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Denmark \u2014 these are the colonial motherlands. They did not observe the slave trade from the sidelines. They invented it, financed it, gave it legal frameworks, and ran it for four centuries. The wealth on which European industrialisation was built rests to a considerable degree on the bodies of enslaved Africans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They know this. And that is precisely why they abstained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because a Yes would have meant: we acknowledge. And acknowledgement \u2014 as they learned from Germany&#8217;s post-war history \u2014 leads to reparations. Germany has paid billions to Holocaust survivors and the State of Israel since 1952. Not one European nation has paid a cent in reparations for slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That difference cannot be justified on moral grounds. It is political, geographical \u2014 and racist in its consequences, even if no one in the chamber was willing to use that word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IV. Money Does Not Heal \u2014 But Silence Destroys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My deeper objection to reparations in the form of financial transfers is a different one. The slave trade was so catastrophic in scale, duration, and civilisational destructiveness that no financial transaction can calibrate it. Four centuries. Millions of human beings. Generations of broken genealogies, erased languages, destroyed cultures, compounding poverty that no cheque can reverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A payment is also a receipt. And a receipt carries the notation: <em>settled and closed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What would actually help is what no Western government is seriously offering: debt cancellation for African and Caribbean nations, structural trade reform, and above all honest historical education in European and American classrooms. None of that costs what a cheque costs. All of it costs more politically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Healing is medicine. Healing is acknowledgement. Healing is the naming of truth \u2014 without subtext, and without superlatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">V. What Actually Happened in New York Yesterday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday in New York, 123 nations said that the slave trade was a crime. That is right and necessary and long overdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the word <em>gravest<\/em> was a political mistake. Not because the slave trade was not immeasurable in its horror. But because superlatives in the language of suffering always set victims against one another. And because this particular hierarchy \u2014 this is the bitter subtext \u2014 serves precisely those who abstained from everything: the colonial motherlands, who want to say neither Yes nor No, because both cost them something they are not prepared to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benjamin&#8217;s angel of history stares back at the wreckage. The EU looked away yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frankl would ask: what attitude do the heirs of perpetrators take toward unavoidable historical truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer New York gave yesterday was: we abstain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both crimes were absolute.<br \/>Both were total for those who suffered them.<br \/>The ranking is not philosophy, it is politics.<br \/>And the politics reveals, with uncomfortable precision,<br \/>whose suffering Europe is prepared to name, and whose it is still not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>P.H. Bloecker is a retired Director of Studies and has been writing about education, literature, and the lived life since 2015 at <a href=\"https:\/\/bloecker.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bloecker.wordpress.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bloeckerblog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bloeckerblog.com<\/a>. He lives on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Trained in German language and literature, American Studies, and linguistics at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, he worked across Germany, Namibia, and Queensland over a forty-three year career. He writes from the intersection of German Idealist philosophy, critical theory, and lived experience across three continents.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"word-count wp-block-paragraph\">approx. 950 words<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">phbloecker.wordpress.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bloecker.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bloecker.wordpress.com<\/a> &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 P.H. Bloecker 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.<br>Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being<br>self-evident.\u201d<br><br>\u2013 Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose Suffering Counts? | P.H. 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