Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
on 02 May 08:52
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Americans using slave labour to manufacture car components is so on trend for them
DishonestBirb@lemmy.world
on 02 May 11:18
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Slavery isn’t illegal in the US under the US constitution specifically if you’re convicted of a crime. The anti slavery amendment specifically allows that loophole. Not sure why people think slavery was abolished there, when all that actually happened were a change in the situations allowing it.
The 13th amendment to the US constitution says this: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
on 02 May 08:56
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going so far as to rigorously ban products from China that might have been made by folks under duress.
Canada is definitely better than the USA in many things, this one included. But I have my doubt about the amplifier “rigorously” here, judging from my home country that has a similar law.
Still, it’s always good to get press uncovering conditions in abysmal US prisons, and calling them what they largely are: a continuation of slavery.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 02 May 11:00
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How DARE they pass laws against slavery and the products thereof?! Most of the founding fathers would have been furious!
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Americans using slave labour to manufacture car components is so on trend for them
Slavery isn’t illegal in the US under the US constitution specifically if you’re convicted of a crime. The anti slavery amendment specifically allows that loophole. Not sure why people think slavery was abolished there, when all that actually happened were a change in the situations allowing it.
The 13th amendment to the US constitution says this: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Canada is definitely better than the USA in many things, this one included. But I have my doubt about the amplifier “rigorously” here, judging from my home country that has a similar law.
Still, it’s always good to get press uncovering conditions in abysmal US prisons, and calling them what they largely are: a continuation of slavery.
How DARE they pass laws against slavery and the products thereof?! Most of the founding fathers would have been furious!