@Daft_ish to Ask Lemmy • 10 months agoWould you be surprised at all if there was a re-emergence of slavery in the United States?message-square108arrow-up1107arrow-down128
arrow-up179arrow-down1message-squareWould you be surprised at all if there was a re-emergence of slavery in the United States?@Daft_ish to Ask Lemmy • 10 months agomessage-square108
minus-square@Daft_ishOPlink2•10 months agoOur society is inherently better? What about it? What about it that prevents slavery?
minus-square@Olhonestjimlink3•edit-210 months agoYou didn’t ask what prevents chattel slavery now. That would be the laws passed by victorious abolitionists. You asked why it happened in the past. It happened in the past because it had always existed and nobody had put a stop to it yet.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-210 months agoAre you trying to be difficult? Your original post was about the US. Every reply you make you change the context.
Our society is inherently better? What about it? What about it that prevents slavery?
You didn’t ask what prevents chattel slavery now. That would be the laws passed by victorious abolitionists. You asked why it happened in the past. It happened in the past because it had always existed and nobody had put a stop to it yet.
It’s still happens, in the world.
Are you trying to be difficult? Your original post was about the US. Every reply you make you change the context.
Well their username checks out.
Obviously. But it ain’t legal, mostly.