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It's been decades and the liberals are still using the "But everyone else did slavery" excuse.
(hexbear.net)
The follow up is just straight up denial mixed with severe historical illiteracy. (BTW, I was talking about the Fugitive slave act of 1793 that passed in congress).
The thread: https://bsky.app/profile/pooldude.bsky.social/post/3m3tdkkac4k2r
Any country that banned slavery did it before America did. The 13th Amendment of the US constitution regulates slavery, rather than forbidding it. To this day it is legal.
Colorado recently tried to actually ban slavery by passing a state constitutional amendment but the courts decided the people didn't actually mean to ban slavery when they voted to ban slavery.
in California they put a slavery ban up for referendum and it failed to get a majority
The Colorado one barely failed the first time but passed with a 2:1 margin on the second try, then the court decided that it was only symbolic and didn't actually apply to "prison labor"
Legal, and common practice.