[RingwormOne]

And when we talk about slavery it's usually in the sense of racialized, bondage-from-birth slavery rather than penal labor.

The two are very different, and using the word 'slavery' to refer to both conflates meaning and disguises the important differences between the two.

[lliamander]

I think the term you may be looking for is "Noncentral Fallacy"

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...

[RingwormOne]

Exactly. Thank you

[bjl]

Penal labor is coerced, unpaid labor which is by definition slavery.

What you're referring to is chattel slavery.