California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.
California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.
www.theguardian.com
‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires
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Yikes, seeing people come out of the woodworks to defend slavery...
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Person from Star Trek instance defending slavery is epsecially baffling, could be Gul Dukat alt account.
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… Founders enter the chat …
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Ow wow he guardian using a real headline.
Edit: nevermind OP had to change the propaganda.
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How weird that Elon Musk didn't build a small fire extinguishing submarine.
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Inb4 he calls the firefighters pedophiles
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Wrong. They are slaves under the 13th amendment of the US, which explicitly allows slavery as punishment for a crime. Some more on this:
The US currently operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least 54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor. Outside of agricultural slavery, Federal Prison Industries operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies. 1, 2, 3
- The US has the highest incarceration rates in the world. Even individual US states outrank all other countries.
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It is slavery, as allowed for under the US constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_exception_clause
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So I think enslaves is a bit much here.
This is a voluntary program, and I'm not getting the impression it's the do this or we punish you voluntary either.
Meanwhile there are actual prisons that will force labor or severely punish you for refusing. That's enslaved.
It's also possible that the fire fighting is voluntary, but if not this, it would have been other mandatory slave work.
Yes there are slaves in prison, I'm just not entirely sure this specific circumstance is it. They are getting slaves wages though.
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America incarcerates people for a ridiculous time and then lets them 'voluntarily work to shorten their sentence'. It's slavery with a little semantics.
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As long as it's not forced (truly voluntary with no punishment otherwise) it's still not enslaving them.
I'm not saying it's good, but the title has an agenda.
Edit: Actually, the POSTER has the agenda, not the article. OP used the world enslaves. The actual article title is ‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires. This is why a lot of places have no editorializing the titles rules.
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Lmfao at the absolutely classic .world responses in this thread. "Slavery is good actually". You guys play your role too a T.
Remember, these are the people calling leftists "authoritarians"