Mauritania: Where Tens of Thousands are Still Enslaved.

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• JU

  @juliank475 · 2 years ago

  You can't convince me there aren't like 5 clones of this guy running his various channels. We need a Wendigoon video on the Simon Whistler channels rabbit hole.

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• OR

  @orboakin8074 · 2 years ago (edited)

  As a Nigerian, allow me to thank you for making this video on a lesser known issue like this😢 I frequently clash with Pan-Africanists here and online over this issue. They constantly talk about past slavery or colonialism and how slavery never existed in Africa, and they frequently blame Europeans. And whenever i mention how we still have slavery here and it's perpetuated by our own people, they go into denial and pretend it doesn't exist! Thanks for pushing against this narrative.

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• MU

  @mustafarahjoe4543 · 1 year ago

  I don't know how bro does it, but each day i found a new channel that is connected to Simon.

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• MO

  @moonjelly5 · 2 years ago

  I learned about this from the Onion Geography book which was published in ~2007. The headline for Mauritania was "Holy F*ck They Still Have Slaves Here".

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• NU

  @Numb3r3dDays · 2 years ago

  This is one of those times when I like to remind myself to be grateful that I was born where and when I was.

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• GI

  @giwilreker · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve been to Mauritania a number of times for work. &nbsp;It&apos;s a bleak country. It&apos;s very poor and then the opulence of the palace (which you are not allowed to take photos of). Compared to its affluent neighbours of Senegal and Morocco it&apos;s the poor cousin living in the sticks. <br> The desert is beautiful in its own way. But it&apos;s definitely not a tourist destination. &nbsp;I&apos;m glad I got to experience it but I won&apos;t be going back.

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• AD

  @adamelmahdali1892 · 2 years ago

  Another day, another new Simon channel discovered

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• TM

  @Tman6669 · 2 years ago

  His parents kinda picked his career for ol’ Hank by naming him Henry the Navigator

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• ON

  @Onora619 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I went from knowing this place didn’t exist to knowing it’s the slavery capital of the world in the space of an hour. Thank you Simon Whistler Public Education System.

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• JO

  @joelharrison2355 · 2 years ago

  Wow okay i see why Morytania in RuneScape is themed around death and slavery.

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• MA

  @MayaHiortPetersen · 1 year ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve driven and travelled through Mauritania and we picked up a hitchhiker who brought us home to his mum where we stayed the night. It was a large old stone house in the desert. His elderly mum and brother&apos;s 2nd wife and 2 small kids were absolutely lovely. I helped to make dinner and we ate under the stars. It was one of most wonderful experiences of my life. Wonderful people. He was a professor and very open-minded though deeply piouds. He told us of how he fell in love with his wife and wouldn&apos;t want a second. We spoke openly of politics and even slavery. He was a humanist and an honour to meet. They were very poor and we ate what they had grown. His mum had terrible arthritis and i left them with painkillers which are not easy to come by there. We left them with hugs and most of our food.

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• CL

  @clairekortbawi5659 · 1 year ago

  I went there on business once. I realised quickly that the &quot;help&quot; were a lot more than that. I&apos;m a native arabophone, but I speak Lebanese Arabic and had a very difficult time understanding Mauritanians. I got enough, though. I could not wait to get out of there. My great-grandfather&apos;s uncle was the one in our town that had to pay the jizya. We grew up knowing how he, though a monastic priest, was spat on, kicked, and abused as he crawled to pay the &quot;let us live&quot; tax. I felt sick to my stomach during the whole affair.

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