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White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Conservative idiots like Trump want to white (heh) wash slavery because they want to bring slavery back. Not just for black people, but of course especially for black people first, but also for all the other poors they think they can exploit to make themselves richer. Somehow they think everyone should be on board with this, and alas probably some subset of idiots will be even after they're already wearing the manacles themselves.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Slavery still exists in the US, it just now only mostly focused on African Americans. The Prison Industrial Complex is an abomination.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Yes, it still exists as the "except as punishment for a crime" loophole in the 13th amendment. And when fascists are in power, they love to make any arbitrary thing a crime so they have a justification to imprison anybody.

    Once they run out of farm workers due to having deported them all, expect Trump and his cronies to be super keen to staff those same farms using slave labor -- for profit, of course -- via just rounding up whoever else they don't like on phony charges.

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