@alphanerd4M to US Authoritarianism • 6 months agoWest Virginia white couple alleged to have kept five adopted black children 'locked in barn and used as slaves'imagemessage-square24arrow-up1183arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1179arrow-down1imageWest Virginia white couple alleged to have kept five adopted black children 'locked in barn and used as slaves'@alphanerd4M to US Authoritarianism • 6 months agomessage-square24file-text
minus-square@nadiaravenlink61•6 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•6 months 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-square@gruelinkEnglish7•6 months agoI was thinking more of the illegal kind, which according to this, was in 1942.
minus-square@StaticFalconarlink6•6 months agoSo you’re saying there js a possibility that orange small dick hands can be enslaved?
minus-square@mojofrododojolinkEnglish4•6 months 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)
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)