• Rb5id8fi@lemmy.world
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          "MrGeekman

          Black people also are not totally blameless when it comes to slavery. Liberals don’t like to talk about it, but Africans sold their enemies to white slave traders. Also, literal slavery still exists in Africa. In fact, most of the metal in our phones was mined by slaves. Most of the chocolate we eat was grown and harvested by slaves. Much of the coffee we drink is grown and harvested by slaves. Sugar too."

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      No he has a point. You can argue about word choice and semantics but slavery and freedom are not all or nothing things.

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        His point is based on a discussion in which a wealthy American calls himself a wage slave.

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      There are many different kinds of slavery, chattel slavery is one of many. Indentured servitude was a much less extreme and dehumanizing form of slavery, serfdom was something in between. Slavery is an incredibly broad term that basically means someone is unable to choose their labor, as it belongs to someone else. That doesn’t necessarily mean the person does, like in chattel slavery, just that their work does.

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        Well it’s a good thing everyone in the US can choose their labor, and that no one making 6 figures is a slave.