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The 13th Amendment explicitly legalises slavery as the punishment for a crime, and its used all the time.
by bjl 9y ago
The 13th Amendment explicitly legalises slavery as the punishment for a crime, and its used all the time.
- RingwormOne 9y agoAnd when we talk about slavery it's usually in the sense of racialized, bondage-from-birth slavery rather than penal labor. The two are very different, and using the word 'slavery' to refer to both conflates meaning and disguises the important differences between the two.
- lliamander 9y agoI think the term you may be looking for is "Noncentral Fallacy" http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
- RingwormOne 9y agoExactly. Thank you
- bjl 9y agoPenal labor is coerced, unpaid labor which is by definition slavery. What you're referring to is chattel slavery.