The one thing every person who says they can live with slavery has in common is an absolute certainty that they will not be the slave
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@jalefkowit Fairly sure this is holds even for those who are into 24/7 M/s kink. Not the same thing at all when there's no pre-negotiated limit sheet.
Exactly this.
Was on a guided walk to the ruins of a sugar plantation that had killed enslaved people casually through forced overwork in dangerous conditions. A couple behind me were talking over the guide's lecture.
Her: "It's terrible what they had to do."
Him: "They didn't have to do it, the slaves did."
@jalefkowit True.
In my experience, even truer is that they refuse to see slavery in their world. Even when you're in a position to shove the evidence in their face, they come up with ten reasons why it's not _really_.
Because if it was, they'd be Bad People. Nobody can stand that.
@jalefkowit oh, we are on the path toward it, most of us
@jalefkowit Epictetus built a career on being a former slave teaching seminars about making peace with the world.
There's likely some petrostate despot eying Megyn Kelly right now
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Or at least Trump hopes so...
https://www.vox.com/2016/1/28/11589176/donald-trump-retweets-bogus-photo-of-foxs-megyn-kelly-with-saudi
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-saudi-megyn-kelly/
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that presumably includes those who are in denial or simply unaware of their own enslavement?
@jalefkowit A modest proposal: in order to own slaves, you have to apply for a slaver's license. Then we put all the applicants' names in a big drum, pull out half the names to award licenses, then auction off the other half to the license holders.
@jalefkowit If we don't do something about the technocrats, we'll all be slaves.
@jalefkowit Sums up the right wing in one hit.