Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care

Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can you name 3 differences between chattel slavery and indentured servitude? I can name five but I don’t expect you to be as well researched.

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  • barooboodoo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can name five

    Go for it, we’re all really interested

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    • Hagenman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And he chickened out.

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      • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did not…

        lemmy.world/post/31819557/17828907

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    • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The children of indentured servants were eligible to be free citizens

      Indentured servanthood had a clearly defined period of service

      Freed indentured servants could petition to become full members of the household and inherit the master’s estate.

      Being an indentured servant to a prestigious master was a social mark of standing, elevating them in some periods even above free citizens of low standing. Never the case in chattel slavery

      Indentured servants and their families were owed damages when the violence was deemed unjust or resulted in permanent damage or death.

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      • CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        1. the status of your child does not tell us whether or not you were a slave

        2. this is just false. Foreign slaves were kept for life.

        3. see 2

        4. somw slaves having a “better life” than some free people is a common whitewashing tactic, which doesn’t make it not slavery.

        5. having restrictions against the cruel state and most injaut masters does not mean it isn’t slavery.

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  • CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a nit pick. The violence permits the selling and owning of people as property. Whatever you want to call it, that is immoral.

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    • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes I agree it is immoral and detestable and was also the softest option for the day. No other contemporary culture had any protection for indentured servants, yet the Bible demands it at the threat of community judgment against the harsh and cruel masters. And the children of indentured servants were free citizens.

      Compared to today it was still brutal and inumane, but was the MOST humane option for literally 3000 years. It’s just not progressive compared to today’s values.

      And today’s values won’t seem very progressive to progressive humans in 3000 years either, something you are probably incapable of understanding.

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      • CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As long as you don’t pretend the bible didn’t permit slavery were all good.

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      • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That only applied to Jewish slaves.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can you tell me who wrote the Bible?

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Douglas Adams?

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What is the relevance to what I said?

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    • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fuck off bot

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      • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fuck you too asshole.

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