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> used by the original site *Used by the original submission. (I think that's what you meant... The article has a title closer to what you used.)
by WalterGR 4y ago
> used by the original site
*Used by the original submission. (I think that's what you meant... The article has a title closer to what you used.)
- anonymoushn 4y agoYour correction to the GP comment is incorrect. This is an article about slave labor and submitting it under titles that suggest otherwise is misleading.
- smcl 4y agoGP is saying that calling the prisoners "workers" is incorrect, and that it is more accurate to refer to them as "slaves". Honestly, I'd tend to agree. There's even a little exception in the 13th Amendment specifically for this: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" They're slaves.
- tsimionescu 4y agoThe GP's point is that calling slaves forced to work in a prison "workers" is a disgusting euphemism.
- WalterGR 4y agoAh, thanks. I got it backwards.
- markovbot 4y agoNo, the disgusting euphemism is still live on the original site and was allowed to stay up on HN. The submission correcting the disgusting euphemism was flagged off the front page before this submission that we're on with was submitted.