• slaneesh_is_right
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      4 days ago

      But these are bad people, they deserve it. Some people even smoked weed while being black.

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      The private prison system is still bad and getting worse under Trump, but thats not what this is. This is sending people en masse to labor camps.

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        4 days ago

        That’s not slavery, that’s genocide. Use the correct words, fellow citizens. Not that it’ll matter. Your new tattoo is on its way, don’t worry. We’re all complicit in this, to different degrees, and no one gets out alive. 🥰

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        Not slavery? Don’t be obtuse. That same commodification via containment is only a part of the greater system of human labor as livestock — which also includes slavery, TBF. Splitting those hairs is either naive or apologetic, and the stark reality of it all DGAF if you understand that. Hell, they’re counting on it.

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            4 days ago

            First off, I apologize for my brusk tone. I’m sorry you had to experience that first-hand, and we have that in common. It’s not something I often talk about (I can count on one hand, in the last 20+ years since), but I want you to know that I hear you.

            If anyone was obtuse, it was me for failing to clarify that the prison system==slavery I was referring to is the forced labor of our incarcerated that was literally written into the 13th Amendment and infallible proof that slavery as we’re taught never ended.

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                I can’t speak for where you were at specifically but in some places if you don’t “volunteer” to work it’s looked at extremely unfavorably by parole boards.

                I wouldn’t necessarily call it slavery light though just a different type of slavery. American chattel slavery was uniquely horrible even amongst most of the other forms of slavery that have existed in the past.