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Re:Chinese spy allegedly caught stealing self-driving car se... by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:35PM (#19040789)
> America was all into slavery 200 years ago.

American didn't abolish de jure slavery until 153 years ago.

It retained de facto slavery for much longer, as it did little to enforce the prohibition on except terminating overt chattel slavery until WWII (the federal order to federal prosecutors announcing the policy shift that stopped eseentially ignoring this was issued five days after Pearl Harbor, 77 years ago.) [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Circular_No._3591

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Re:Chinese spy allegedly caught stealing self-driving car se... by oh_sigh on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:58PM (#19040938)
Okay, I edit my previous statement to be: "just like America can't claim moral high ground over Mauritania because of large amounts of slavery happening there, because after all America was all into de facto slavery 77 years ago."

I don't believe the point is particularly changed though.

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