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RE: dair-community.social/@trochee…
❝ when Europeans say "we're not racist like Americans" ❞
exactly as you say: they imply since they technically didn't have #chattle #slavery on their EU lands (at least on the scale USA had it), they can’t be that kind of racist.
but they did have slavery: first in their #MENA outposts, then in the lands they stole in the Américas.
#Ceuta and #Morocco need to be seen as, not just metaphors for migration from Africa to Europe. they represent Europe’s first enclaves of OFF-SHORE SLAVERY.
Jeremy Kahn (@trochee@dair-community.social)
@blogdiva@mastodon.social I think that the US relationship to race and immigration is the unholy synthesis of chattel slavery (via the British-dominated triangle trade) and La Conquista peonage, which is the outgrowth of Euro colonial adventures in…Distributed AI Research Community
RE: thelounge.network/@LogicalApex…
indentured servitude is #slavery by #debt. #healthCare tied to #employment is an engineered debt.
the usa health care by employment is a form of indentured servitude. in other words:
EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES IS A FORM OF DEBT SLAVERY.
doubly so if you have debt by #studentLoans.
#PuertoRico outlawed debt slavery because post-slavery plantation workers were locked into their jobs by debt ―always to the plantation owner― they couldn’t retire in bankruptcy.
like today's student loans.
RE: mstdn.social/@DemocracyMatters…This is the main reason employers don't want fundamental changes to the US healthcare system. Their share of the costs has increased heavily over the last two decades, but they love its impact on employee retention.
This is a feature not a bug.
#healthcare #affordableHealthCare
Democracy Matters :verified: (@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social)
FREEDUMB “An increasing number of adults are slogging through jobs they don’t like solely because they don’t want to lose their health insurance,” Stat reports. “This phenomenon — known as ‘job lock’ — has existed in the U.S. workforce for decades.Democracy Matters :verified: (Mastodon 🐘)
