\nSeen at least 2 mutuals marvel at how anyone could vote no on the Oregon resolution to amend the constitution to prohibit slavery. Well, I did, so here goes:
Like, no one’s legally holding chattel, I understood the question as “should we change up systems of prison labor and subject them to general wage labor laws intended for the circumstances of the outside” and had not been convinced that would usefully create a better world.
Like, no disrespect to Malcolm X but if I was spending X years in prison I would absolutely rather work in the machine shop for 2 Cokes a day than read the dictionary, and I think that’s okay
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