alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 23 days agoWest Virginia white couple alleged to have kept five adopted black children 'locked in barn and used as slaves'lemmy.worldimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1181arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1177arrow-down1imageWest Virginia white couple alleged to have kept five adopted black children 'locked in barn and used as slaves'lemmy.worldalphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 23 days agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63·23 days agoTime to reset the “it’s been X days since the last American slave was freed” counter.
minus-squarenadiaraven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up59·23 days agoIt’s literally never been reset. The 13th amendment gives an exception for slavery as punishment for a crime, so all you have to do is convict someone of a bullshit crime and then you’ve got yourself slave labor. It’s still legal. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1210564359/slavery-prison-forced-labor-movement
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·23 days agoYup, and if you find yourself lacking slave driven profit, just pass another law, it’s not like the gerrymandered districts will be able to vote your guy out anyways.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·23 days agoI was thinking more of the illegal kind, which according to this, was in 1942.
minus-squareStaticFalconar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·22 days agoSo you’re saying there js a possibility that orange small dick hands can be enslaved?
minus-squaremojofrododojo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·22 days agoWhen they can put away an army vet for life, for supposedly stealing $9, the system is evil. https://www.change.org/p/kay-ivey-free-mr-willie-simmons-army-veteran-serving-life-for-stealing-9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Simmons_(inmate)
Time to reset the “it’s been X days since the last American slave was freed” counter.
It’s literally never been reset. The 13th amendment gives an exception for slavery as punishment for a crime, so all you have to do is convict someone of a bullshit crime and then you’ve got yourself slave labor. It’s still legal. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1210564359/slavery-prison-forced-labor-movement
Yup, and if you find yourself lacking slave driven profit, just pass another law, it’s not like the gerrymandered districts will be able to vote your guy out anyways.
I was thinking more of the illegal kind, which according to this, was in 1942.
So you’re saying there js a possibility that orange small dick hands can be enslaved?
When they can put away an army vet for life, for supposedly stealing $9, the system is evil.
https://www.change.org/p/kay-ivey-free-mr-willie-simmons-army-veteran-serving-life-for-stealing-9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Simmons_(inmate)