Can I just say that the response of Kevin Cypher is literally a cookie-cutter of what (explicit) slave owners and slavery apologists used to say??
The idea that people taken away from their families and imprisoned and forced into labor sometimes experience moments of relief when they aren’t being actively punished does not mean they “love” or are “happy” performing countless hours of unpaid fucking labor.
The “happy slave” trope was absolutely disgusting pre-Juneteenth and it’s absolutely disgusting now.
how can you type “they’re happier to be working than sitting in a cage all day” and not realize how fucking evil you sound???
“They’re happier to be risking their lives in an obscenely dangerous wildfire than to be in cages”
That should be an implication of our prisons, not a defense of using prisoners for slave labor
Mooncustafer 