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[–] 27 points 10 months ago

Because the US is used to chattel slavery, where someone "owns" the person and the person (in general) is never freed. "Forced labor" denies the fiction of ownership and maintains the illusion that everyone can be free.

[As a complete aside, ancient Rome had a law saying that a father could only sell his son into slavery a maximum of three times.]

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