awaysaway@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoWhat are things that are illegal today that could become legal in 50 years?message-squaremessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWhat are things that are illegal today that could become legal in 50 years?awaysaway@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square5linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareResplendent606@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·27 days agoWhile I get what you’re saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime. See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
minus-squareAngry_Autist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·26 days agoPedantry is the stinkiest of colognes, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist
minus-squareTheDoozer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·25 days agoSo when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general). I don’t think it’s pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.
minus-squareAngry_Autist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·25 days agoYou don’t think at all and people like you are a big part why the internet has gotten so shitty
Slavery.
While I get what you’re saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime.
See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
Pedantry is the stinkiest of colognes, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist
So when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general).
I don’t think it’s pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.
You don’t think at all and people like you are a big part why the internet has gotten so shitty