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[โ€“] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

ITS STILL here, at least in very wasp areas, especially in country/golf clubs they still have hordes of African immigrants as "servers", one english prof told me one time he dated a woman who im guessing is wealthy because they were eating at this country club, and all the severs there were African immigrants/migrants. and yes the people there that were in "high society were all white"

I understand what you are trying to say but isn't it downplaying slavery (especially the racist slavery in this case) when equating it to seemingly racist hiring practices of country clubs? I would agree with you that it seems to be a romanization of the racist slavery. But slavery and a job is very different. The racism might be the same at its core but working in a job and working in slavery is very very different.

I am not defending the clubs. I just think slavery is a word that shouldn't be deluded as it should be understood as the horror that it is.

If you think I am wrong, please let me know. Maybe my take is stupid.