I feel like the various forms of servitude in Asia should not be equated to the chattel slavery of black Americans?
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Jmt, i feel like people could be a little more careful with their outrage
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Cheapen American slavery? Many am slaves had complex relationships with their owners as well. But denial of liberty = slavery.
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The distinction of selling people as objects at auctions and controlling their ability to have families is an important one
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Yes, it cheapens American chattel slavery to compare it to a system in which the enslaved are not sold as literal chattel
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In both people are still property, no?
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Please give me the applicable legal definition of property for each instance and write an essay on how it's functionally the same or not
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Ya I only recently realized that US folks have no idea how to categorize historic forced labor in Latin America.
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Indentured servitude is prob closest European concept. Americans get caught up on the captivity part of slavery more than forced labor part
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But its like you know if they get to go to their own roof and have their own family that doesn't make forced labor not forced labor.
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Found out one indigenous tribe I'm descended from were used as slave labor to mine silver after putting up fiercest resistance to Spanish
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Yes, and it can also be forced labor even if some money or some benefit is involved... it's complicated
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It's almost as though there are many shades of exploitation and even if they're all bad, one is not the same as the other
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Would you say its only light slavery? Like light rape?
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Technically slavery, but not.. y'know.. *slavery* slavery.
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But to be less snarky about it for a second.. there's some bitter irony in one of American slavery's lasting impacts being to
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serve as a defense of every other historical and modern instance of slavery that doesn't (usually) involve literal chains.
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Imprisoning and systematically dehumanizing a person becomes "complex" and "nuanced" in every other context.
#NotAllSlavers
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thank you. As a Filipino in the PH it's annoying that Americans insist on reading and being outraged on your terms, when this is about our
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culture almost as much as it is abt the slavery of Lola. The outrage against us is from positions of privilege/former colonial masters.
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