Subj : Re: Sowell on Slavery
To   : JEFF THIELE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Nov 10 2022 17:59:00

>  MP> > If military conscription is slavery, then the US practiced slavery as l
>  MP> > the 70s and Israel along with some Scandinavian countries practice slav
>  MP> > this day.
>  MP> > Or, conscription is not slavery.
>  MP> It is not just the conscription, but the fact they were conscripted
>  MP> before citizens of the home countries,
>
> Conscription is conscription, regardless of the selection process.

Not when the point is that they were favoring one group over another.
Isn't that what "supremacy" is all about?

>  MP> Persons living in the UK and Germany were free.  Non-white persons
>  MP> living in their colonies, not so much.
>
> But were they slaves? Slavery has a pretty specific definition.

As many of them, even outside of war time, were being forced to work at
things that were not a job they volunteered for, and maybe were not getting
paid for, I think so.

The whole point of this is that someone else posted and pointed out that
there was history elsewhere being ignored and was told no there really
wasn't.  Except there is.


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