Don’t forget the war on drugs

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    2 months ago

    The 13th amendment created the legal groundwork for transforming a free people into a nation of de facto chattel slaves. Reagan accelerated this process massively.

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    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      The 13th amendment, which bans slavery, made people less free? We had more slavery before the 13th amendment. What we have now is fewer slaves that most don’t think of as slaves but are still slaves we just call it prison work programs.

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          12 months ago

          "The 13th amendment created the legal groundwork for transforming a free people into a nation of de facto chattel slaves. Reagan accelerated this process massively.

          Mental patients 🖐️ (⁠눈⁠‸⁠눈⁠)

          “Prisoners with jobs” 👈 (⁠♡⁠ω⁠♡⁠ ⁠)"

          Where do you see the word “except”? If you intended to write it you did not.

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        22 months ago

        The 13th amendment banned chattel slavery, but turbocharged penal slavery.

        Deregulation in general and of the for profit prison industry in particular has made it so that there’s more slaves in the US now than there ever was before the 13th was passed.

        Granted, penal slavery is of course nowhere near as bad as chattel slavery was, but it’s still slavery, which is morally repugnant barbary and outlawed in every civilized legal system i the world.