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Originally posted by sycamore
Slavery still exists today...it's just not as overt as it used to be.
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In the US? horseshit.
Let's not belittle the atrocities of slavery by trying to redefine the word. There may be poor working conditions, there may be people trapped into a lifestyle of poverty because of few educational options, there may be people who have limited potential in life, there may even be people who have difficulty getting work from a bigoted manager.
But these things are not slavery. No one runs away from an employer and is arrested and forcibly returned to that employer as property by the Supreme Court. No one has their child taken by their employer and sold at auction to another employer.
There will always be cheap and ready labor available for menial work, and there will always be those who call it unjust and abusive. Let’s be real here. That’s a far cry from the institutionalized atrocity of slavery.
-sm