California Proposition 6. Prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude.
This proposed amendment to California's constitution would bar slavery in any form and repeal a current provision allowing involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.
52% reporting, 54.9% No, 45.1% Yes
What.
Ugh I saw 64% yes on that earlier and was happy about it, turns out it was only SF and not the statewide results. Disgraceful
The craziest part is that there was not even any opposition submitted for this, no groups telling you not to vote for it, no signs saying NO ON 6... Nah the little fascist piggies that reside in this state just read this and said fuck that, I don't wanna end slavery.
i mean, your average american can't read, and the ones that can read are 30-40 years old and read harry potter. it's possible most people didn't even understand what any of that meant.
The owner of that thread and person that likely carried out this ban is /u/raldi, a former employee of reddit.
the pro slavery libs are the same ones calling soviet gulags and xinjiang vocational facilities genocide
except, you know, the later two are both all closed and the us prison slavery is ongoing
i told all the crying libs at lunch today that i was going to move to China since we are apparently totally fine with legalized slavery. several people told me that I'd find it much worse over there lol
Never forget that the defense of slavery is literally one of the core founding principles of liberalism.
As mentioned earlier Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter- History is a pretty serious salvo against 17th-19th century liberalism and does indeed talk in great detail about how the veneration of individual property rights was used to oppose any state interference in owning, beating, selling, CW
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or killing the humans you own.
Good text, pretty formal in its format but some really great arguments.
This section from the essay Really Existing Fascism covers it in some detail.
sorry, I had a brain hiccup. I only got three hours of sleep but now I remember reading this. I ordered Losurdo's Counter-History afterwards but haven't cracked it open yet
some Losurdo I've read has touched on it, I haven't read it yet but quite sure Liberalism: a Counter-History goes in depth. it's one of the great myths of our time that things like slavery, colonialism, and mass exploitation are somehow anathema to liberalism or aberrations of it. they are part and parcel. John Locke defended slavery.
