Laws passed during the era of the New Deal prohibited the use of prison labor with the exception of state institutions. However, lobbying by corporations eventually allowed them to use prison labor by 1979, and by 1995 businesses won exemptions from minimum wage laws which permitted them to exploit prison labor for, according to Elizabeth S. Anderson, “mere pennies an hour.” She adds that “many are forced to work in unsafe conditions without protective equipment, because workplace health and safety laws do not apply to prison workers.”[39]
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Except to work in service of the society one committed a criminal act against.
Yeah . . . the horror.
throws you into prison for a crime you swear you didn’t commit
Yeah . . .
a Black man earning 8 cents an hour flipping burgers separated from his family for most of the rest of his life because he was caught with drugs once under Reagan’s racist policy reading this: oh hell yeah i find this to be totally fair
get real.
Perverse Incentives. The US has the largest incarcerated population in the world almost directly because of this carve-out. Mandatory minimums, the three-strike law, overpolicing, etc. find some of their reason for existing because it allows for more legal slaves.
When the state has every incentive to “find a criminal” then the meaning of “criminal act” becomes fungible.
I had to learn that China invaded Tibet because Tibetan Buddhism practiced generational slavery.
I wonder what China thinks of the slavery in the USA ?
“Imperialism is good if we say ‘human rights’ first” - The apologists for the
British and French in AfricaCCPI’m sure the Uighurs will be delighted to hear that they’ll be liberated soon.
Probably not much considering chinese factories have literally locked employees inside.
While the factory was on fire…
My understanding is that this is contentious, and some scholars believe that the invasion was truly done to expand territory (not an uncommon theme in world history) and/or that the hierarchal system in Tibet, while inequitable, was hardly comparable to the Western model of slavery. So just be careful I guess?
Yall laughed at Kanye West but AFAIK he was the only candidate to focus on rewriting the 13th ammendment
Dude’s a fucking nazi, i don’t care what his focus was.
also… “focus”? iirc it was like 2-3 tweets so… idk if we can give him that much credit
I mean that’s a pretty hardcore presidential platform by today’s standards
I didn’t laugh at Kanye till he came out as a Nazi. Even when he had his MAGA hat on he was supporting i.e. Colin Kaepernick and 13th Amendment changes and that was pretty cool despite the other loser behavior. Also: Bernie Sanders certainly has focused on the 13th amendment.
Yes. Let’s vote for the neo nazis because of his one good idea. What could go wrong?
(Remember, that time when he praised hitler? Praised a dude that thought he was subhuman because of his ancestry?)
(Also, you do realize that changing the 13th requires another amendment, so that’s basically not going to happen.)
To be fair. They were laughing at him for all his other positions. Being right about one thing doesn’t negate being wrong about all the others. But it is something we definitely need to address.
Yall laughed at Kanye
That’s what clowns are for my friend.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
“A stopped clock is right twice a day, but a clock that looses just 1 second a year is right only once every 43,200 years, so it’s better to quit than to be a little bit behind.”
- Michael David Stevens (Vsauce)
Edit: (V)Sauce: https://youtu.be/f4wzUEQxurM?t=45
I fucking love Vsauce
