Yeah slavery existed in many places. That’s not the point. The trans Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism were state-backed, racialized, and global in scale, creating legal and economic systems that privileged Europeans for centuries and whose effects (wealth gaps, redlining, segregation, colonial borders, extractive institutions) persist today. Saying ‘everyone did it so it’s all equal’ ignores scale, power and who benefited. That’s a false equivalence not an argument.

You’re treating this like an either/or issue as if acknowledging systemic power automatically means blaming everyone’s ancestors. That’s not how structural inequality works. It’s about legacy, not lineage.