• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Arguments like these are also uncomfortably similar to the arguments slave owners would use to justify slavery. “Look, I take good care of them, feed them, give them clothes, and even built them their own shack next to my plantation house! That means I’m totally not exploiting the people I believe are my property!”

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      ‘I allow them to just exist between whipping and beating them, isn’t that enough?!’