squid_slime@lemm.ee to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAlabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companiesx.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down12
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minus-squaresakodak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up71arrow-down4·edit-22 months ago“. . . . except as a punishment for crime . . . .” Slavery never stopped, it just evolved. There’s a reason black men are so overrepresented in the prison system. The US is a fascist country. If you live here and you don’t feel it, you are benefiting from it.
minus-squareManifish_Destiny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoNo, I certainly still benefit from it, as do most Americans. But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t fight against it.
“. . . . except as a punishment for crime . . . .”
Slavery never stopped, it just evolved. There’s a reason black men are so overrepresented in the prison system.
The US is a fascist country. If you live here and you don’t feel it, you are benefiting from it.
No, I certainly still benefit from it, as do most Americans. But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t fight against it.