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		yencabulator 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severit... And there were no human rights for the slaves of the Western nations.

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synecdoche 3 days ago [–]

As opposed to slaves in non-western nations? May I remind that slavery was not exclusively a western thing, and that there are more slaves today than there ever was, in absolute terms, almost none in western nations.

yencabulator 3 days ago | [–]

The parent comment was making it seem like the West is some kind of beacon of virtue.

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