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The underlying source is an absolute joke as well. Whether ALEC somehow benefits from prison labor or not, just because these companies may have a relationship

The underlying source is an absolute joke as well. Whether ALEC somehow benefits from prison labor or not, just because these companies may have a relationship with ALEC doesn't mean they benefit.

gpm 7y ago
The source we are talking about says nothing about benefiting from prison labor, either for ALEC or the corporations that have a relationship with ALEC, so I don't understand your complaint.
- WillPostForFood 7y ago
  Yes, that's the point. I should have been more clear. It is a joke to use it as a reference to support the claim about benefitting from prison labor since it doesn't have any information on it. It may well be an accurate list of companies that have some relationship with ALEC.
anonsivalley652 7y ago
I really, sincerely hope you will consider educating yourself on what ALEC is about. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hidden-history-ale... https://www.truthdig.com/articles/alecs-horror-show-is-coming-to-your-hometown/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/alecs-horror-show-is-comin...
- WillPostForFood 7y ago
  I'm not defending ALEC, but ALEC supporting something isn't evidence that Walmart benefits from it. You have to show me Walmart is using prison labor directly or indirectly. What specific products and vendors.
faintrain 7y ago
You may not like the ALEC list but in some form most of the major US corporations that have existed for sometime have benefited from slavery. It’s a fact that a number of American and European institutions benefited both directly and indirectly from former and present day slavery. Some have even admitted as much. If you don’t want to read, here’s another short list: AIG, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Brooks Brothers, Aetna, Lehman Brothers, Domino Sugar, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Princeton University, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown, - https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1543861 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154386... - https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/ https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/ - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247
- WillPostForFood 7y ago
  This is about prison labor, not historical slavery.
  - faintrain 7y ago
    The two are very related. You may want to read up on the period of Reconstruction. The southern states moved to use of prisons and sharecropping/terrorism to maintain their hold on cheap labor. There’s too many studies and books on this topic so I won’t post them. Instead, I’d recommend reading more about the parts of American history not called out in your standard high school text books.

The underlying source is an absolute joke as well. Whether ALEC somehow benefits from prison labor or not, just because these companies may have a relationship with ALEC doesn't mean they benefit.

gpm 7y ago

The source we are talking about says nothing about benefiting from prison labor, either for ALEC or the corporations that have a relationship with ALEC, so I don't understand your complaint.

WillPostForFood 7y ago
Yes, that's the point. I should have been more clear. It is a joke to use it as a reference to support the claim about benefitting from prison labor since it doesn't have any information on it. It may well be an accurate list of companies that have some relationship with ALEC.

anonsivalley652 7y ago

I really, sincerely hope you will consider educating yourself on what ALEC is about. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hidden-history-ale... https://www.truthdig.com/articles/alecs-horror-show-is-coming-to-your-hometown/ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/alecs-horror-show-is-comin...

WillPostForFood 7y ago
I'm not defending ALEC, but ALEC supporting something isn't evidence that Walmart benefits from it. You have to show me Walmart is using prison labor directly or indirectly. What specific products and vendors.

faintrain 7y ago

You may not like the ALEC list but in some form most of the major US corporations that have existed for sometime have benefited from slavery. It’s a fact that a number of American and European institutions benefited both directly and indirectly from former and present day slavery. Some have even admitted as much. If you don’t want to read, here’s another short list: AIG, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Brooks Brothers, Aetna, Lehman Brothers, Domino Sugar, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Princeton University, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown, - https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1543861 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154386... - https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/ https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/ - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247

WillPostForFood 7y ago
This is about prison labor, not historical slavery.
- faintrain 7y ago
  The two are very related. You may want to read up on the period of Reconstruction. The southern states moved to use of prisons and sharecropping/terrorism to maintain their hold on cheap labor. There’s too many studies and books on this topic so I won’t post them. Instead, I’d recommend reading more about the parts of American history not called out in your standard high school text books.