cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11237867
The 13th amendment specifically allows slavery when incarcerated.
Doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole if you are pro-slavery
Someone disagreed with this enough to downvote it. Someone alive in 2024. Edit: Now 2!
It could mean they think it’s irrelevant or doesn’t add to discussion, which i could honestly see being the case.
Either stay in your country or go through the proper channels. Or work as a field laborer for pennies on the dollar…sounds like there are a couple choices here, no one is forcing people to cross illegally. Edit I read no good, my b
You realize that this can happen to your uncle Cletus and not just illegal immigrants, right? Lol I’m going to assume not, based on your answer. I’m sorry that your parents, yourself, and your school district failed to educate you - there’s still information out here though, just look around. Ask for help if you need to, there’s lots of adults around.
I’ve been to prison and to be honest… When you have a job in there that pays usually 60 to 70 cents an hour, it’s so much better than sitting on your ass and calling your friends/family asking for a handout…It sounds crazy, but after a while you literally crave a purpose/job.
A purpose != a job. Capitalism has tried to equate the two, but it is incorrect
I definitely understand that and I’ve seen that sentiment over and over in news/documentaries about such topics. People like to be busy, work, have meaning, purpose. Activate the mind, pass time. It does not mean that the people should be exploited even if it’s beneficial to them.
I have spent just several days in jail and I know that time. fuckin. crawls.
What about children who were brought across the busted with their family illegally. They were forced.
The point is that because of the lack of illegal immigrants, they now need to use prisoners as slaves instead.
Either stay in your country or go through the proper channels. Or work as a field laborer for pennies on the dollar…sounds like there are a couple choices here, no one is forcing people to cross illegally.
In your rush to dunk on folks who have made a difficult decision at a low point in their likely quite difficult lives, you failed to actually read what you replied to. But I’m guessing your response is now “they are criminals so they have no rights, and so who cares about their humanity.”
So you didn’t read the meme still, or are we changing topics now? I’m interested to hear your defense of slavery.
I mean, yes. The constitution explicitly carves out one exception to the “no slavery” rule. People who proudly proclaim America was the “first country to abolish slavery” don’t even realize America didn’t abolish slavery. So even if they were right, they’d still be wrong.
A number of other countries did it first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom
Meanwhile the conservatives complain the IlLeGaLs are taking all their jobs.
And only as recently as 2022 did we have a few states (four) abolish, without exception, the state constitution version of “except as punishment for a crime”. For the first time in US History!
I don’t understand, in that article it points out that Alabama allows this without pay, but then later in the article said Alabama is one of four that doesn’t allow this…?
Yes, it’s odd. I think this snippet from the second article about the four states might shed light:
“The approved measures will not immediately change the states’ prison systems, but they could lead to legal challenges about prisoners being forced to work or facing sanctions or loss of certain privileges if they don’t.”
