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You make some good points, but I still feel like it is better to be "free" and impoverished and marginalized than it is to be enslaved in 1865.

1865 wasn't really that long ago, but also 1965 wasn't that long ago either...

I don't think acknowledging the historical atrocities of a state that is truly at war with the people within it, stops anyone from seeing what injustice is currently happening.

The fact is that for a long time many living in the states were explicitly not seen as people. The consequences of this still live on in america's culture.

There are so many justifications that america has made for its slavery historically, but I want to also point out that slavery still exists in the states in prisons, and also the fact that globalization has moved so much of production into sweatshops around the world that have working conditions that are illegal and incredibly unethical ...

But yes the conditions globally are terrible, and in the us they suck too, and everything is systematically fucked.

These conditions are held In place by state and industry. The reason these systems are so immovable is that they force so many participants to be complicit... Its truly a hostage situation.

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