The U.N.’s Colonial Reparations Folly
11th September 2025
Later this month, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk will issue a report calling for massive reparations from the West for the alleged harms wrought by colonialism. It will be the culmination of a long-gestating effort within the U.N. and by Third World nations to squeeze money and demand other goodies from former colonial powers in the name of “reparatory justice.”
In addition to being historically ill-informed, the effort is racist. What began as a simple extortion effort has since been supercharged into an all-out assault on European cultures. Since being appointed in 2022, Türk has transformed his office. It now issues daily muezzin calls for uncontrolled mass migration to the West and the erasure of white cultures. His report should cause Western nations to abandon every U.N. agency that pursues this sick agenda.
The genesis of the colonial reparations movement (and the adjacent slavery reparations movement) that Türk is building on began as a fringe cause among Western Marxists in the 1970s. It was taken up by African nations following the first major conference on the topic in Lagos in 1990. The U.N. joined the chorus in the 2000s. It mustered political support for a renewed “Big Push” of development aid to Africa (most former colonial Asian nations want nothing to do with this backward agenda). The clamor grew by merging with the “racial justice” movement that erupted in the 2010s, reaching its crescendo on the streets of Minneapolis in 2020. “Behind today’s racial violence, systemic racism and discriminatory policing lies the failure to acknowledge and confront the legacy of the slave trade and colonialism,” Türk’s predecessor said at an “urgent” U.N. meeting at the time.