• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    First off, I apologize for my brusk tone. I’m sorry you had to experience that first-hand, and we have that in common. It’s not something I often talk about (I can count on one hand, in the last 20+ years since), but I want you to know that I hear you.

    If anyone was obtuse, it was me for failing to clarify that the prison system==slavery I was referring to is the forced labor of our incarcerated that was literally written into the 13th Amendment and infallible proof that slavery as we’re taught never ended.

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        4 days ago

        I can’t speak for where you were at specifically but in some places if you don’t “volunteer” to work it’s looked at extremely unfavorably by parole boards.

        I wouldn’t necessarily call it slavery light though just a different type of slavery. American chattel slavery was uniquely horrible even amongst most of the other forms of slavery that have existed in the past.