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"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The GP comment was also flamebait but at least it had one foot in the topic, where this post is just flamewar hell. Please don't go there here.

I’m not sure what Dutch people today have to do with decisions Dutch people from hundreds of years ago.

People don't choose where they're born, they only get to choose what they do with what they've been given.

Isn't that the point?

It very much was the point. Thank you.

Wasn’t it the Portuguese?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

Yes it was. Specifically referring to Chattel slavery.