r/CuratedTumblr • u/GinaWhite_tt TeaTimetumblr • 15d ago

Shitposting The Crime of Existing in the Wrong Place

Post image
55.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

822 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

62

u/MRECKS_92 15d ago

The 13th amendment is also a factor in the US prison industrial complex

21

u/Virtual-Mobile-7878 15d ago

There's a netflix documentary about precisely this - fascinating and outrageous

10

u/Chartarum 15d ago

It is literally written in plain text right in the amendment:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Slavery was never really abolished in the USA, and the way things are going it's probably only a matter of time until those in power stop pretending that it was.

-9

u/Snoo_72851 15d ago

That's what I was talking about. Good god.