Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?

Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by cheph on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:36PM (#25972193)

Fleeing violence and poverty? By voluntarily becoming slaves (people who are owned by other people and have no agency in their lives) by illegally entering a systemically racist and white supremacist country where racist white supremacists cops hunt black people like dogs on the street with impunity?!

And they are slaves inside the US but in no other country that they are in except the US?

This logic does not square for me.

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Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by wpietri on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:04PM (#25972458)

> This logic does not square for me.

So what? I imagine the very last concern of people deciding whether to move to another country in hopes of improving their family's life is whether some random internet commenter understands them.

If you actually want to understand it, writing obstreperous and ignorant forum posts isn't going to change anything. Seek out their own voices and actually listen.

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Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by cheph on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:00PM (#25972932)

> So what? I imagine the very last concern of people deciding whether to move to another country in hopes of improving their family's life is whether some random internet commenter understands them.

They did not call themselves slaves ... someone on HN did. The logic I cannot square is how someone can say these people are slaves with a straight face.

I don't care what they do with their lives, if they want to illegally enter a racist facist hellhole where half the country are white supremacists that is their choice. What I object to is saying they are slaves because they voluntarily make this choice.

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