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.
"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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Where do you see the word “except”? If you intended to write it you did not.
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.
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.
Go read it again; the word “except” is doing the heavy lifting here.
"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.
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.