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alphanerd4@lemmy.world to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

West Virginia white couple alleged to have kept five adopted black children 'locked in barn and used as slaves'

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West Virginia white couple alleged to have kept five adopted black children 'locked in barn and used as slaves'

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alphanerd4@lemmy.world to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 11 months ago
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  • grue@lemmy.world
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    Time to reset the “it’s been X days since the last American slave was freed” counter.

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      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

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        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.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        I was thinking more of the illegal kind, which according to this, was in 1942.

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        So you’re saying there js a possibility that orange small dick hands can be enslaved?

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        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)

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    I wonder who they were planning on voting for. Hmm. Who could it be?

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      With their five (2 + (5 × ⅗)) votes?

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        Is it racist that Unicode has a ⅗ symbol?

        • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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          Definitely raised an eyebrow when that Borg introduced himself as Three of Five to Geordie

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            Haha, been a long time since I’ve watched that.

            And I mean, there’s only 20 Unicode symbols for vulgar fractions, and they made ⅗ but didn’t even bother with all of the tenths.

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              But that’s the same as six tenths.

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                seems my conspiracy theory is debunked now

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      They look like they’d write in Elvis, but we all know the real answer.

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    But I’m reliably told that racism isn’t a thing any more.

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      It’s the argument the conservative supreme court used to eliminate many provisions of the civil rights act. Which other judges described as ‘‘standing in the rain under an umbrella and throwing away the umbrella because you’re not getting wet’’

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    They look exactly like I expected them to look.

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      One tries to not ‘judge a book by it’s cover’, and then people ( like these folks) go out of there way to make their cover match their life’s book. smh

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        These people are always their own caricatures.

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    That’s Mitch McConnell in a wig.

  • socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    they were just giving those poor kids jobs

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      Those kids learned valuable skills according to PragerU

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      nah that will never fly with the agricultural, meatpacking and manufacturing industries that employ thousands of these kids.

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    Look, I understand that phrenology is racist junk science, but you can’t tell me that if those two walked into the same coffee shop as you, you wouldn’t at least be a little suspicious that they’ve kidnapped and forced some children into slave labor. They’ve got the look!

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