odinsblog:

If you’re defending Bill and Hillary Clinton’s use of legalized prison slavery—using people they called superpredators, who needed to be brought to heel—if you’re trying to defend that today, I suggest watching and re-watching Ava DuVernay’s documentary, 13th.

Saying “It’s just tradition” makes you sound like you’re defending slavery or the confederate flag. And if your argument is that prison labor “keeps costs down” and saves money, well it still sounds like you’re defending Civil War era slavery. And it doesn’t sound like you’re a progressive.

And if you try to excuse it’s relevance it by trying to shove it into the “distant” past, it was in the 1990s not the 1890s. So it’s still relevant.

It was and is still wrong.

There’s no defending this.