Yeah we need to get clear that "X form of oppression wasn't as bad as US chattel slavery" is a really really low bar to clearhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/865033828217360384 …
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US chattel slavery - industrial-scale racially enforced slavery - is as bad as slavery gets but "nicer" forms of slavery are still SLAVERY
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It's not actually different from picking out specific "nice" slaveowners in the US antebellum South and saying they don't count either
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"Oh this dude wasn't rich, didn't own a plantation, just had a household slave who helped out his wife" - you can find lots of examples
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And examples of "Oh she was manumitted but kept working there as a low-paid household servant" -- none of that is foreign to the US
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And calling by kinship terms. "Uncle" and "aunty" and yes "Mammy" -- c'mon, read a book set in the Old South
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