Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWould you be surprised at all if there was a re-emergence of slavery in the United States?message-squaremessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down17
arrow-up112arrow-down1message-squareWould you be surprised at all if there was a re-emergence of slavery in the United States?Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareOlhonestjim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoYou didn’t ask what prevents chattel slavery now. That would be the laws passed by victorious abolitionists. You asked why it happened in the past. It happened in the past because it had always existed and nobody had put a stop to it yet.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoIt’s still happens, in the world.
minus-squareinvertedspear@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-211 months agoAre you trying to be difficult? Your original post was about the US. Every reply you make you change the context.
minus-squareOlhonestjim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoWell their username checks out.
minus-squareOlhonestjim@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoObviously. But it ain’t legal, mostly.
You didn’t ask what prevents chattel slavery now. That would be the laws passed by victorious abolitionists. You asked why it happened in the past. It happened in the past because it had always existed and nobody had put a stop to it yet.
It’s still happens, in the world.
Are you trying to be difficult? Your original post was about the US. Every reply you make you change the context.
Well their username checks out.
Obviously. But it ain’t legal, mostly.