20 sats \ 4 replies \ @sangekrypto 25 Aug \ parent \ on: America Divided on the Legacy of Slavery charts_and_numbers
How is it possible that in developed countries there is still slavery, perhaps there is the influence of customs from our ancestors.
That's more what I mean. There is still slavery in America, but that's not what anyone is thinking of when asked about this.
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Maybe only ordinary people still feel the existence of slavery, and only a certain part, because of this custom.
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Slavery in modern day America is very much out-of-sight out-of-mind.
The two forms that come to mind are prison labor and sex slavery. I don't know the extent of the later, but it's not zero and there are people who claim it's quite high.
Prisoners are often allowed to work, but sometimes they are forced to. In some cases, you could probably argue that this is not unjust, but for those incarcerated for victimless crimes it's indistinguishable from slavery.
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In my opinion, if there are crimes that are imprisoned but there are no victims, it might not be fair if there are acts of coercion and sexual slavery in prison, this is harassment, everyone will not accept being treated like that.
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