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While I get what you're saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime.
See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
Pedantry is the stinkiest of colognes, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist
Wow, very irrational and egotistical, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist, son.
That's not pedantry, it's being correct. Slavery isn't illegal in the United States. It's used as a punishment for crimes.
The discussion is about things that are illegal today that could be legal in 50 years. Slavery itself falls outside that topic because it is already legal. That isn't trivial or splitting hairs, nor is anyone being snarky by pointing that out. It's just a fact.
Boy, if you're going to act like a know-it-all you should at least know a bit more.
A. You didn't articulate that until just now so how could anyone know what you meant unless you actually said it?
B. Are you aware of what ICE has been doing, because that sounds a lot like what ICE has been doing. More prisoners = more "prison labor" (to be clear, that means slaves). Although, to be fair we don't actually know where most of their victims have gone.
Says the guy making personal attacks on an Internet forum over being corrected...
So when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general).
I don't think it's pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.
No, the reason the internet is shitty is because of consistently, factually wrong, and overly aggressive assholes such as your self.