Mr Reynholm wrote:
Instead of being angry at Cotton, here is some current real world stuff to be outraged by:
Together, these 10 countries – China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines and Russia – comprise 60% of all the people living in modern slavery, as well as more than half the world's population, according to the Global Slavery Index.Feb 25, 2019
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Slavery exist TODAY and its NOT the Republicans enslaving people.
Gotta love dat conservative whataboutism deflection.
Also

slavery exists today in the US and it is very much Republicans doing the enslaving (that's not entirely fair, many Democrats have contributed, digustingly enough, but their support for this cannot compare to republicans').
The modern slavery upheld by the Republican party is Mass Incarceration. The 13th Amendment contains the convenient exception that slavery may exist as punishment for a crime. So good news, racists from 1865 onward: if you still want to enslave people, just arrest them for something (or nothing--this is America so the criminal is always guilty of whatever the infallible officer says).
Those companies which benefitted from prison slave labor used their resultant wealth to 'incentivize' the police to make more arrests for whatever reasons they felt like making up. Private prisons in America are the new plantations, and they love to inject millions of pro-slavery dollars into Republican campaign funds.
Modern mass incarceration and the War on Drugs grew out of this pattern of imprisoning black Americans to enslave them. Pursuing marijuana arrests let them undermine leftist movements by characterizing them as a bunch of commies and hippie stoners. And crack cocaine arrests did the same for the black community. Why do you think the CIA flooded the inner city with cocaine from US-allied regimes in Latin America?
Not only did this allow for the enslavement of millions of Americans, it also disenfranchised them because of laws barring convicts and felons from voting. Republicans are still fighting tooth and nail to keep those laws on the books. Thus: enslaving Americans and taking away their voting rights are now cornerstones of Republican policy. They just dress it up with sanitized phrases like 'tough on crime'.
China's incarceration rate is less than 1/5 of ours bc less incarceration means fewer slaves.
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