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Re:My Family’s Slave by dismantlethesun on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @08:09PM (#14354494)
I think there might be some conflation between this story and the article posted. We and the OP don't actually know if the person was enslaved by forced labour.

All they know is that they slept on a matt in the kitchen.

If they were being paid adequately, I would not call it slavery. Poor labour practice, certainly, and distasteful in the extreme but not the same thing as forced labour and bondage.

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Re:My Family’s Slave by DashRattlesnake on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:56PM (#14355277)
> I think there might be some conflation between this story and the article posted.

Yeah. My sense is people are angry at what the OP described, and their anger has clouded their judgment. They're twisting ambiguous stories like lordnacho's into a version of the OP's, so they can play-act their sense of righteous superiority.

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