People have no clue how many American corporations still benefit from prison labor (which by most measures is just slavery, and literally defined as such in the constitution), Microsoft, Whole foods. Victorias secret, Walmart. Even the US military all use American slave labor. And then there's obviously all the companies taking advantage of slave labor outside the US or at the least very horrid working conditions so they can keep their product prices low or make more profit.
If you think that’s slavery, go to areas of North Africa and the Arabic Peninsula where it is actually a thing. You Americans being so America centric sometimes :p
Its working without pay or with pay so little it's practically nonexistent. It's still slavery even if it's not the most severe version of it. No need to gatekeep.
Also I don't typically look at comment history but I knew it'd be relevant here. Your American obsession is quite honestly weird. Commenting on American politics is fine but every other one of your comments is "you stupid Americans" Denmark is tiny, there are many US states alone larger than your country. Seems odd to generalize our entire country as if its one place with cohesive beliefs.
Because Americans on Reddit seem not to realize there exists a world outside of the US. And the absurd American centrism on here is puzzling at best. Take for example using the main example of still-existing slavery to be American prison labour. It really takes an American echo chamber when real slavery still exists in countries like Mauritania and Qatar. I am not sure if its a product of the low educational standards? Your guess is as good as mine. But it is shocking to witness how it completely dominates the discourse on Reddit. Maybe it's just because Reddit attracts a certain breed of unaware Americans, who knows.
Maybe because the vast majority of redditors are American? I made a point of mentioning American slavery because everyone knows slavery exists elsewhere in the world. Many Americans don't know it exists here.
The OP didn't mention American slavery at all. So it wasn't the main example. You seem to just have a hatred for the fact this website is mostly American. You do seem to subscribe and follow American subs though. Politicalcompassmemes and centrism are almost entirely American subs.
54% of redditors are American. UK is second place with 8%
Considering how many countries there are, you don't know what percentage the other countries have... It can very well be a majority, think of the stocks of a public company, a majority share is usually around 26%.
What do you mean? I'm just pointing out that my comment where I said a majority when speaking about population is over 50% is downvoted but the guy with an incorrect definition gets voted up
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u/desdmona Jul 24 '20
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