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.... when most of what you purchase is made by slaves today?
How is it possible for people to lament so much about our slave history, when day after day they gleefully buy products basically made by slaves?
Today's slaves are not forced into labor, they are not bought and sold like 150 years ago.... but make no mistake about it - they exist everywhere. And you are wearing the results of their labor right now.
Did you know most slave owners in America paid their slaves? In many counties they were required by law to do so.
Is it not disingenuous to cry about slavery that existed 150+ years ago....and then consistently choose products made using slave wages?
It is simply easy. It is easy for about half of Americans and the rest of the world to pretend that America invented slavery and colonization and blame America for all those ills.=.
Its easy for an idiot like you to make stupid claims like above.
Why exactly are you trying to apologize for American slavery?
It was an evil institution that did exist- no reason to pretend it didn't or that it wasn't evil.
America didn't invent it or colonization- but we did both.
yes, a sad part of our history. But today dems are trying to bring it back up as a political wedge issue. Because they have nothing else to run on.
Funny because the usual ones I see bringing it up here are Right wing Confederate fanboy apologists.
Because in the end, Conservatives like yourself still miss the days when you could own your own African Americans.
.... when most of what you purchase is made by slaves today?
How is it possible for people to lament so much about our slave history, when day after day they gleefully buy products basically made by slaves?
Today's slaves are not forced into labor, they are not bought and sold like 150 years ago.... but make no mistake about it - they exist everywhere. And you are wearing the results of their labor right now.
Did you know most slave owners in America paid their slaves? In many counties they were required by law to do so.
Is it not disingenuous to cry about slavery that existed 150+ years ago....and then consistently choose products made using slave wages?
It is simply easy. It is easy for about half of Americans and the rest of the world to pretend that America invented slavery and colonization and blame America for all those ills.=.
Its easy for an idiot like you to make stupid claims like above.
Why exactly are you trying to apologize for American slavery?
It was an evil institution that did exist- no reason to pretend it didn't or that it wasn't evil.
America didn't invent it or colonization- but we did both.
yes, a sad part of our history. But today dems are trying to bring it back up as a political wedge issue. Because they have nothing else to run on.
Funny because the usual ones I see bringing it up here are Right wing Confederate fanboy apologists.
Because in the end, Conservatives like yourself still miss the days when you could own your own African Americans.
totally wrong, like 99% of your posts. The left is trying to create a race war because its all they have left, all of their policies have failed, their leaders are incompetent and corrupt, and their socialist ideology has never worked anywhere in the world. So, what do you have left----------------race baiting, and even that is no longer working for you losers.
Yes, Iam, people have been forced to work long hours and sacrifice their leisure and their happiness, and have sometimes lived short brutish lives in order to feed themselves long enough to survive for awhile. Whether that was when they were wrenching their crops from the soil or when they were working for pennies paid by a greedy corporatist, it is the way this world works. It sucks, but it is not slavery, anymore than shutting down hate speech groups off Facebook is Nazi fascist.A tangential argument having almost nothing to do with the main ideas of this thread. You got something a little more on point to say, now that you got that out of your system?LOL. It was for the census and representation in Congress, wasn't it? Because in some southern states there were actually more blacks than whites and they of course could not vote? Which would give them an unfair advantage over states that did not have so many slaves?The government can't sell your son to another family when he is 5. A man with guns cannot legally rape your wife (or husband). You are not considered 3/5 of a person with no right to vote. You are not legally prohibited from sitting in certain parts of a restaurant or using a certain bathroom or water fountain because of your color.
What you are describing may be too much government intervention, but it is not slavery.
LOL, if one has no idea what the 3/5ths clause meant one shouldn't talk about it.
If you know you can understand that it would have given the South control over congress. Talk about it correctly or don't talk about it all. Was it fair to blacks? No, but it kept their owners from gaining and controlling the power.
So what would you call it then?
And how is it not a global disgrace that people knowingly buy products every single day made using said labor?
And how do you bring about awareness?
It is true, modern slaves are not owned. But they are absolutely forced into labor. Read about it.
Read about Foxconn, the worlds largest electronics manufacturer.
The concrete bunkers they keep their workers in have chain nets around the whole building to catch people trying to kill themselves. 13 suicides in one year at one factory.
How is this not slave labor?
And is it useful to argue that semantic instead of concentrating on how globalism and corporatism is using this labor to enrich themselves and put people out of jobs all over the world?
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It is simply easy. It is easy for about half of Americans and the rest of the world to pretend that America invented slavery and colonization and blame America for all those ills.=.
Its easy for an idiot like you to make stupid claims like above.
Why exactly are you trying to apologize for American slavery?
It was an evil institution that did exist- no reason to pretend it didn't or that it wasn't evil.
America didn't invent it or colonization- but we did both.
yes, a sad part of our history. But today dems are trying to bring it back up as a political wedge issue. Because they have nothing else to run on.
Funny because the usual ones I see bringing it up here are Right wing Confederate fanboy apologists.
Because in the end, Conservatives like yourself still miss the days when you could own your own African Americans.
totally wrong, like 99% of your posts. The left is trying to create a race war because its all they have left, all of their policies have failed, their leaders are incompetent and corrupt, and their socialist ideology has never worked anywhere in the world. So, what do you have left----------------race baiting, and even that is no longer working for you losers.
yeah... except I am not a liberal.
If 99% of my post are wrong, then it would be conservatives that are what you describe
Its easy for an idiot like you to make stupid claims like above.
Why exactly are you trying to apologize for American slavery?
It was an evil institution that did exist- no reason to pretend it didn't or that it wasn't evil.
America didn't invent it or colonization- but we did both.
yes, a sad part of our history. But today dems are trying to bring it back up as a political wedge issue. Because they have nothing else to run on.
Funny because the usual ones I see bringing it up here are Right wing Confederate fanboy apologists.
Because in the end, Conservatives like yourself still miss the days when you could own your own African Americans.
totally wrong, like 99% of your posts. The left is trying to create a race war because its all they have left, all of their policies have failed, their leaders are incompetent and corrupt, and their socialist ideology has never worked anywhere in the world. So, what do you have left----------------race baiting, and even that is no longer working for you losers.
yeah... except I am not a liberal.
If 99% of my post are wrong, then it would be conservatives that are what you describe
my comment was directed to syrously, not you.
Yes, Iam, people have been forced to work long hours and sacrifice their leisure and their happiness, and have sometimes lived short brutish lives in order to feed themselves long enough to survive for awhile. Whether that was when they were wrenching their crops from the soil or when they were working for pennies paid by a greedy corporatist, it is the way this world works. It sucks, but it is not slavery, anymore than shutting down hate speech groups off Facebook is Nazi fascist.A tangential argument having almost nothing to do with the main ideas of this thread. You got something a little more on point to say, now that you got that out of your system?LOL. It was for the census and representation in Congress, wasn't it? Because in some southern states there were actually more blacks than whites and they of course could not vote? Which would give them an unfair advantage over states that did not have so many slaves?LOL, if one has no idea what the 3/5ths clause meant one shouldn't talk about it.
If you know you can understand that it would have given the South control over congress. Talk about it correctly or don't talk about it all. Was it fair to blacks? No, but it kept their owners from gaining and controlling the power.
So what would you call it then?
And how is it not a global disgrace that people knowingly buy products every single day made using said labor?
And how do you bring about awareness?
It is true, modern slaves are not owned. But they are absolutely forced into labor. Read about it.
Read about Foxconn, the worlds largest electronics manufacturer.
The concrete bunkers they keep their workers in have chain nets around the whole building to catch people trying to kill themselves. 13 suicides in one year at one factory.
How is this not slave labor?
And is it useful to argue that semantic instead of concentrating on how globalism and corporatism is using this labor to enrich themselves and put people out of jobs all over the world?
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Yes, Iam, people have been forced to work long hours and sacrifice their leisure and their happiness, and have sometimes lived short brutish lives in order to feed themselves long enough to survive for awhile. Whether that was when they were wrenching their crops from the soil or when they were working for pennies paid by a greedy corporatist, it is the way this world works. It sucks, but it is not slavery, anymore than shutting down hate speech groups off Facebook is Nazi fascist.A tangential argument having almost nothing to do with the main ideas of this thread. You got something a little more on point to say, now that you got that out of your system?LOL. It was for the census and representation in Congress, wasn't it? Because in some southern states there were actually more blacks than whites and they of course could not vote? Which would give them an unfair advantage over states that did not have so many slaves?LOL, if one has no idea what the 3/5ths clause meant one shouldn't talk about it.
If you know you can understand that it would have given the South control over congress. Talk about it correctly or don't talk about it all. Was it fair to blacks? No, but it kept their owners from gaining and controlling the power.
So what would you call it then?
And how is it not a global disgrace that people knowingly buy products every single day made using said labor?
And how do you bring about awareness?
It is true, modern slaves are not owned. But they are absolutely forced into labor. Read about it.
Read about Foxconn, the worlds largest electronics manufacturer.
The concrete bunkers they keep their workers in have chain nets around the whole building to catch people trying to kill themselves. 13 suicides in one year at one factory.
How is this not slave labor?
And is it useful to argue that semantic instead of concentrating on how globalism and corporatism is using this labor to enrich themselves and put people out of jobs all over the world?
View attachment 211320
Yes, Iam, people have been forced to work long hours and sacrifice their leisure and their happiness, and have sometimes lived short brutish lives in order to feed themselves long enough to survive for awhile. Whether that was when they were wrenching their crops from the soil or when they were working for pennies paid by a greedy corporatist, it is the way this world works. It sucks, but it is not slavery, anymore than shutting down hate speech groups off Facebook is Nazi fascist.A tangential argument having almost nothing to do with the main ideas of this thread. You got something a little more on point to say, now that you got that out of your system?LOL. It was for the census and representation in Congress, wasn't it? Because in some southern states there were actually more blacks than whites and they of course could not vote? Which would give them an unfair advantage over states that did not have so many slaves?
If you know you can understand that it would have given the South control over congress. Talk about it correctly or don't talk about it all. Was it fair to blacks? No, but it kept their owners from gaining and controlling the power.
So what would you call it then?
And how is it not a global disgrace that people knowingly buy products every single day made using said labor?
And how do you bring about awareness?
It is true, modern slaves are not owned. But they are absolutely forced into labor. Read about it.
Read about Foxconn, the worlds largest electronics manufacturer.
The concrete bunkers they keep their workers in have chain nets around the whole building to catch people trying to kill themselves. 13 suicides in one year at one factory.
How is this not slave labor?
And is it useful to argue that semantic instead of concentrating on how globalism and corporatism is using this labor to enrich themselves and put people out of jobs all over the world?
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banning free speech is fascist, no matter how offensive the speech may be to you and me
.... when most of what you purchase is made by slaves today?
How is it possible for people to lament so much about our slave history, when day after day they gleefully buy products basically made by slaves?
Today's slaves are not forced into labor, they are not bought and sold like 150 years ago.... but make no mistake about it - they exist everywhere. And you are wearing the results of their labor right now.
Did you know most slave owners in America paid their slaves? In many counties they were required by law to do so.
Is it not disingenuous to cry about slavery that existed 150+ years ago....and then consistently choose products made using slave wages?
It is simply easy. It is easy for about half of Americans and the rest of the world to pretend that America invented slavery and colonization and blame America for all those ills.=.
Its easy for an idiot like you to make stupid claims like above.
Why exactly are you trying to apologize for American slavery?
It was an evil institution that did exist- no reason to pretend it didn't or that it wasn't evil.
America didn't invent it or colonization- but we did both.
yes, a sad part of our history. But today dems are trying to bring it back up as a political wedge issue. Because they have nothing else to run on.
Funny because the usual ones I see bringing it up here are Right wing Confederate fanboy apologists.
Because in the end, Conservatives like yourself still miss the days when you could own your own African Americans.
totally wrong, like 99% of your posts. The left is trying to create a race war because its all they have left,.
A tangential argument having almost nothing to do with the main ideas of this thread. You got something a little more on point to say, now that you got that out of your system?LOL. It was for the census and representation in Congress, wasn't it? Because in some southern states there were actually more blacks than whites and they of course could not vote? Which would give them an unfair advantage over states that did not have so many slaves?The government can't sell your son to another family when he is 5. A man with guns cannot legally rape your wife (or husband). You are not considered 3/5 of a person with no right to vote. You are not legally prohibited from sitting in certain parts of a restaurant or using a certain bathroom or water fountain because of your color.
What you are describing may be too much government intervention, but it is not slavery.
LOL, if one has no idea what the 3/5ths clause meant one shouldn't talk about it.
If you know you can understand that it would have given the South control over congress. Talk about it correctly or don't talk about it all. Was it fair to blacks? No, but it kept their owners from gaining and controlling the power.
So what would you call it then?
And how is it not a global disgrace that people knowingly buy products every single day made using said labor?
And how do you bring about awareness?
It is true, modern slaves are not owned. But they are absolutely forced into labor. Read about it.
Read about Foxconn, the worlds largest electronics manufacturer.
The concrete bunkers they keep their workers in have chain nets around the whole building to catch people trying to kill themselves. 13 suicides in one year at one factory.
How is this not slave labor?
And is it useful to argue that semantic instead of concentrating on how globalism and corporatism is using this labor to enrich themselves and put people out of jobs all over the world?
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No, actually it isn't. Unless one wants to redefine a term in order to promote an agenda.A really, really, really shitty analogy.
There is a YUGE difference between chattel slavery and economic servitude.
Learn it. Meanwhile, this thread's premise is a pile of shit.
Guilty conscience eh?
Obviously today's slaves are not like slaves throughout the world in every nations past.
But that doesn't mean they don't still exist. They exist everywhere.
Working 16 hour days, many 6 days a week, some 7... no benefits of any kind... living in 300-400 sq ft concrete bunkers (and they are the lucky ones) making wages that barely-barely covers just the amount needed to buy meager groceries.... IS slave labor.
It is simply easy. It is easy for about half of Americans and the rest of the world to pretend that America invented slavery and colonization and blame America for all those ills.=.
Its easy for an idiot like you to make stupid claims like above.
Why exactly are you trying to apologize for American slavery?
It was an evil institution that did exist- no reason to pretend it didn't or that it wasn't evil.
America didn't invent it or colonization- but we did both.
yes, a sad part of our history. But today dems are trying to bring it back up as a political wedge issue. Because they have nothing else to run on.
Funny because the usual ones I see bringing it up here are Right wing Confederate fanboy apologists.
Because in the end, Conservatives like yourself still miss the days when you could own your own African Americans.
totally wrong, like 99% of your posts. The left is trying to create a race war because its all they have left,.
And again- the ones who keep bringing up race are you contards, in your attempt to convince minorities that they are 'enslaved' by the Democrats- even though of course- they are the Democrats. You contards are the ones who keep promoting the lie that only non-whites are racists and the lily white Republican Party is of course composed entirely of non-racists while the entire Democrat Party is full of racists.
Because that kind of race politics has worked with your base- the scared Conservative white men who feel threatened by those who don't look like themselves.
