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If you’re not interested in fighting on the Internet, you wouldn’t have posted what you posted. You can say “it codified [slavery] in the above sense”, but obv
by kthielen 4y ago
If you’re not interested in fighting on the Internet, you wouldn’t have posted what you posted.
You can say “it codified [slavery] in the above sense”, but obviously this isn’t the sense that people meant when they went to war to end slavery. And neither you nor I had to make the sacrifice that those people made to end what they considered to be slavery in the US.
Maybe it’s worth considering what the purpose of the 13th amendment was? It’d be a pretty huge mistake to conclude that the purpose of passing the 13th amendment was to enshrine slavery in law, which so many people fought and died to abolish, right?
- evanb 4y agoI was acting with the principle of charity, assuming that you did not actually understand the sense the above poster meant. Hoping that you would apply the same principle to my comment, I pointed out in my original response that that sense drew an equivalence between unpaid imprisoned work and chattel slavery that is... That's the last I'll respond to you about this topic.
- kthielen 4y ago> That's the last I'll respond to you about this topic. I love it when this one gets pulled out. UH OH, NO MORE RESPONSES! Well I'm also happy to leave it here, that the 13th amendment absolutely outlawed slavery and that people arguing for policy changes in law enforcement are making a weak case that their poorly justified agenda is somehow on par (or even more morally virtuous) with the 19th century abolitionists. NOW I'M TAKING MY BALL AND GOING HOME.