• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Slavery, Texas Observer. Call it slavery. It may be legal, but it’s still slavery.

    Imagine how much more impact the headline would have been if it instead read: Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Slavery Shrouded in Secrecy

    Because even “forced labor” doesn’t make it sound as bad as it actually is. Only one word does.