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by imtringued 1437 days ago
The slave loophole creates a motivation to wrongfully convict people or more aggressively convict people for petty crimes.
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mushbino 1432 days ago
That's exactly why the Jim Crow laws came around making almost anything illegal (if you were black). They rounded people up and put them right back on chain gangs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
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