r/extremelyinfuriating • u/Phil_Carrier • 7d ago
Disturbing content I think the word "why" fits my thoughts best.
I thought humankind was over the whole slavery thing. This thought has been proven wrong to me when I found this on Instagram. More information available here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHdlxN1sakt/?img_index=4&igsh=MXM1anYwa2pyZzM1ZA==
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u/BertytheSnowman 7d ago
If you thought humankind was over slavery, you're not gonna like what you see if you do some research on modern day slavery.
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u/NotTukTukPirate 7d ago
I had to explain this to some kid on here recently. Tried telling me slavery doesn't exist anymore. Eventually they admitted they were wrong because they "asked GPT and it told them about it"
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u/JamJm_1688 3d ago
How tha frack did ChatGPT get more trust than fracking humans and google, well okay strike that, google is crap for the moment, but still
IT WAS A TOOL FOR CHEATING WHEN IT WAS RELEASED FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
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u/LetoplazV2 2h ago
Chat gpt and Google do like the same thing these days the only thing you can actually trust are the sources themselves
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u/GlitteringCountry158 7d ago
coughs in clothing sweatshops
For example, every single piece of clothing has been touched by human hands. Often children’s hands. It bothers most of us to know this, for sure, but we often turn a blind eye to things that benefit us and just sweep it under the rug so to speak.
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u/subjectnumber1 7d ago
That's part of the reason I wanted to learn how to sew! But nowadays it's basically impossible to live without being part of someone being exploited
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u/GlitteringCountry158 7d ago edited 7d ago
It’s so frustrating right?? Some of these sweatshops are integral to that country’s economy that even if you were to remove them, you’d need something to replace them to help create revenue.
Sewing is so cool btw! My mom is amazing at it, but I never had the desire for it. I hope you learn it and, and if you have, enjoy it :))
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u/subjectnumber1 7d ago
I did learn it and I love it when everything works as planned and curse it if it doesn't (also to heck with ironing) ♥️
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u/PlatypusDream 6d ago
I've seen decorative signs that say, "If I'm holding the seam ripper, now is not a good time" & I want one for my sewing room
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u/yourscherry 7d ago
Do you know how the fabric is made and dyed? It never ends :(
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u/subjectnumber1 7d ago
Yes I know 🙃 I've talked about it to my dad who is super into fair trade and whatnot and he said that basically "moral" fabric doesn't exist :')
Our world freaking sucks
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u/MilesGamerz 6d ago
Sadly I doubt people would pay more for "moral" clothes either. We humankind kinda sucks.
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u/makingstuf 7d ago
You gotta learn. How to spin your own cotton and tan your own leather if you're gonna get away completely
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u/GirlMayXXXX 5d ago
Beehive Clothing is a sweatshop. One of my mother's friends used to work there before she returned to Peru and she got eye ulcers from working there.
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u/ShockDragon 7d ago
Shit, at least they actually got a deserved sentence. Some would say death sentence, but if you think about it, these bastards aren’t ever getting out of prison.
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u/DiggityDog6 6d ago
I’ve always said that life sentences are basically just elongated death sentences. In some ways it’s actually worse because yeah you’re living for a longer amount of time, but what exactly are you living for? To eat shitty food all your life? Yo be surrounded by some of the most awful people day in and day out? To be treated like you’re sub human for however long you have left? And then you just die in prison anyway, either of old age or because another prisoner doesn’t like what you did
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u/Belainarie 6d ago
Even in the United States alone, there’s a lot of shady business going on with slavery, including not actually freeing enslaved families after the 13th amendment. When it was put into effect some slave owners just chose not to free them and didn’t say anything, and it took the radio/televised documentation of the Civil Rights movement for freedom in the sense of families not being allowed to own slaves. I’ll need to find the article again, but this came about because of a mass grave site found with the bones dating way too late for the emancipation proclamation.
The added bit to the 13th amendment is that slavery and involuntary servitude is abolished unless it’s being used as a form of criminal punishment. Now think of the war on drugs and which demographic is disproportionately impacted by felony drug charges, or just criminal charges in general.
What the couple did is abhorrent absolutely, and I’m glad they’re not going to see outside the prison walls. But the cold truth is slavery never truly left the United States, the government just found loop holes to justify slavery because “It’s totally not about systemic racism”
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u/AcadianViking 7d ago
"Why" is an easy question to answer.
Rascism. Plain and simple. The rascism that is deeply ingrained into the American culture.
If you think humanity was over the whole Slavery thing, then you forget our constitution literally has slavery enshrined as a valid form of punishment for crime.
Also, remember that the first black woman to attend a desegregated school, Ruby Bridges, is still alive. She is only 70 and lives in New Orleans.
This stuff is still living memory. As a culture, we are far from over it.
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u/ClonerCustoms 7d ago
Literally slavery around the world is more popular now than ever before lmao
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u/_Jack_in_the_Box_ 7d ago
Did you even read the comment? He said around the world. Never mentioned the west. You cherry picked something he didn’t mention while admitting you know nothing of the point he originally made.
Don’t do that
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u/ClonerCustoms 7d ago
As the other commenter mentioned, where in my comment did I say in the west?
Learn to read.
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u/ClonerCustoms 7d ago
Great so there’s more people and earth and more slaves than ever… you prove my point and make another at the same time. Hats off to you, smart sir 👏
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u/-Roxaaa 7d ago
who let them keep them?? doesnt america have regulations on adoption like was there genuinely no one to check on those children??
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u/Joelle9879 7d ago
Honestly no. There's a bunch of hoops to jump through to actually adopt but once the kids are adopted, the state washes their hands of them.
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u/jkurratt 7d ago
The fact that they are being sentences is proof that there indeed was someone to check on those children.
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u/AcadianViking 7d ago
No, it is more likely that the children got lucky a concerned neighbor noticed something wrong and called in a welfare check.
Once a child is adopted, the state stops giving a shit about them.
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u/-Roxaaa 7d ago
ok but five?? five adopted children before discovering anything is insane
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u/HunterBravo1 6d ago
laughs in homeschooling
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u/-Roxaaa 6d ago
i will never understand how its still legal in the us
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u/HunterBravo1 6d ago
It shouldn't be completely banned since there are some (as in very, very few) kids who really do need to be homeschooled, but it does need to be very closely monitored and regulated.
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u/harrysterone 7d ago
Didn't you know slavery still exists a lot... Recently they caught an african diplomat using a slave...
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u/Jazzlike_College871 6d ago
This is what I don't understand about people being sentenced. Sure, they do horrible things, but why is everybody being sentenced to like, 200+ years without parole. At that point just give them the death penalty.
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u/chjknnoodl 6d ago
Individual charges are allowed to add up into absurdly long sentences because of the possibility they'll be dropped at a later point. Even if their sentence is reduced they will rightfully be locked away for life. As for why the death penalty isn't always used, that's because it's evil.
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u/DiggityDog6 6d ago
How is an absurdly long life sentence any less evil than a death penalty? Either way you die in prison, it’s just one of them has another couple of decades tacked on before that happens. If I was in that situation, I’d rather be put out of my misery than forced to live in a prison for however many years I had left
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u/chjknnoodl 6d ago
Because there's always a chance the person you're executing is innocent. There is also no evidence to suggest it deters crime or brings peace to victims. And in my opinion it's just hypocritical and wrong.
You'd be surprised what fulfilling, repentant lives people live out in prison. I don't agree that it's worse than death, I hear that a lot.
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u/Pure-Contract7101 6d ago
I think it’s because there’s a fate worse than death in being imprisoned for the rest of your life rather than just being killed
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 6d ago
Humankind is far from over the whole slavery thing. This is still the case in many countries
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u/Ok-Image-5514 5d ago
Yikes. Scums R Us❗ 😡😡😡👎👎👎🤮🤮🤮
After looking at this crusty couple, one wonders: are they also siblings❓❓❓
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u/TheSnakerom 5d ago
They are not white. They are First Nations, a tribe from Washington state. Whitefeather is not a “white” name.
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