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Article #1272Re: Call Me A Liberal
From: trebor
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:34
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:34
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"gatt" <gatt@hevanet.com> wrote: >Then Trebor wrote: > >> Life for the vast majority of slaves was a meaningless, exhausting >> drudgery with death as the only release. How is that different from >> working at Walmart or Target? > >Because even if you work at Wal Mart or Target, they don't whip you for >being unproductive. The whipping makes for good movie scenes, but the average slave got by with a lot of yelling, threatening, shoving, and kicking. >They don't take your children away from you and sell them to strangers, Okay, no, but they can put them in foster homes. >and they didn't take you from your world, chain you to a ship to >languish in your waste as you're taken to a place you didn't even know More slaves were born in the US than brought here. >and force you to do all the dangerous, backbreaking or humiliating jobs >that the master class itself won't do. Dunno about you, but last time I was at Target, it wasn't the master class itself I saw running around in red uniforms. >You can quit your job... Actually, that's one of the things a Walmart/Target worker is least able to do. >If you think working at Wal Mart sucks Not particularly. Someone rhetorically suggested slavery be reinstituted. I merely pointed out that, except in the most abstract sense, slavery has never gone away.
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