• PugJesusM
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    362 years ago

    Formally, it wasn’t slavery. Effectively, it was.

    • @Poop@lemmy.ca
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      402 years ago

      I’m seeing chains on necks, looks like slavery to me. Even if they were prisoners, that is inhumane.

      Fucking greasy to think it’s so close to recent history.

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        402 years ago

        The current US prison system is effectively legalised slavery, and is a big reason why US system doesn’t do reform and incentives recedivism

        • @okamiueru@lemmy.world
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          Still literally in the US constitution. 13th:

          Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction

      • Herbal Gamer
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        82 years ago

        doesn’t count if you don’t think those wearing chains are people.

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          What gets me is that yeah that’s their excuse, but if someone treated, say, an orangutan or a baboon like this I’d think that was pretty fucked up too. We were so gross. We still are (dog fighting, circus elephants etc) but the cruelty that we’re capable of without what is essentially moral peer pressure, is chilling to think about. Even today we fight tooth and nail against moral progress and treating everyone with respect.