flipocrite:death2america:thumbbro:elierlick:My new favorite thing is journalism that treats the Unit
flipocrite:death2america:thumbbro:elierlick:My new favorite thing is journalism that treats the United States like we do other countries.>largest population of labor campsI’m sure China would like a wordI believe this is referring to US prisons which would actually beat China…and most other countriesAnd for anyone confused by “labor camps”https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/American Slavery, ReinventedIt has to do with involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime being permitted in the 13th amendment.That slavery was abolished is a gross simplification of the 13th Amendment, and the “except as punishment for a crime” loophole is the express reason the former Confederacy went into overdrive in jailing every former slave they could find (for “trespassing” when on private property, and “loitering” on public property). Their economy was built entirely on slave labor, and the vast majority of strong, hardworking hands were suddenly unfettered and able to leave (or worse, become business competitors that actually had experience with manual labor). Through mass incarceration, the South was able to reenslave their labor force. It wasn’t long before the decimated CSA was back on its feet, propped up by the same bound hands that supported it before. The racially charged system of generating prison labor has not been updated since, and the prison-industrial complex remains an integral part of the American economy. -- source link