Trump calls 50,000 federal employees back to work, won't pay them

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  1. It might be useful for folks to remember the distinction between slavery and chattel slavery. Not all slavery is like old-timey American slavery; that was a particularly horrendous manifestation of the practice.

  2. There are plenty of slaves in modern America, they just aren’t chattel slaves. They’re in the prisons.

  3. Comparing the current situation of unpaid federal workers to slavery is somewhat misguided and distasteful. Workers that are free to quit their jobs are not experiencing involuntary servitude. Comparing the plight of unpaid prison guards to slavery is particularly dodgy.

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