rugburn@fedinsfw.app to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoCongrats on your big win!!!media.fedinsfw.appimagemessage-square139linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageCongrats on your big win!!!media.fedinsfw.apprugburn@fedinsfw.app to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square139linkfedilink
minus-squareVarpeggio@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoAnd to feed the prison industrial complex, of course.
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoYup they wanted to get “those people” off the streets.
minus-squarePeacepath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoworkers at the charge of public expenses, working for the benefits of private companies 😍
minus-squarePeacepath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoDon’t worry, it can’t become true… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI see it as a direct continuation of: Slavery->Sharecropping and Jim Crow->mass incarceration Slavery never ended. The name just changed to be more polite, with a fig leaf of freedom and free will. Additionally we realized two things: It’s more economical to hold slaves in large central facilities than dispersed. The best way to fight abolitionism is to convince the populace that the slaves deserve it.
And to feed the prison industrial complex, of course.
Yup they wanted to get “those people” off the streets.
workers at the charge of public expenses, working for the benefits of private companies 😍
Ugh, that’s dystopian.
Don’t worry, it can’t become true…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
I see it as a direct continuation of:
Slavery->Sharecropping and Jim Crow->mass incarceration
Slavery never ended. The name just changed to be more polite, with a fig leaf of freedom and free will. Additionally we realized two things:
It’s more economical to hold slaves in large central facilities than dispersed.
The best way to fight abolitionism is to convince the populace that the slaves deserve it.