US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay

Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by dang on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:42PM (#31786872)

Would you please stop posting political and ideological flamewar comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing that repeatedly lately. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, and therefore we have to ban such accounts.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by epakai on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:32PM (#31785827)

Just explain why Republicans defend confederate statues...

There is little to associate the modern Republican party with, for example, Lincoln's party. Are Republicans of today going to enforce those reparations you're waiting on??? Your one-sided painting of the situation is a useless way to frame reality.

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by effingwewt on Friday June 17, 2022 @09:34PM (#31786563)

This is taught in middle school history. Much of history is fought over, and in those instances you'd have had a leg to stand on, but this right here was clear-cut.

The fact that the people with the values who called themselves Democrats back then became what are Republicans today.

Stop trying to re-write history to fit a narrative, life sucks hard enough without people making stuff up to muddy the waters.

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by grzm on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:32PM (#31785829)

This ignores the realignment of the parties in the 1940s. See the formation of the States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by tomohawk on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:39PM (#31785873)

Stop pushing this big lie.

The people in the Dixiecrats are known. There are lists.

Can you name 10 that switched parties? You can't.

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by btilly on Friday June 17, 2022 @08:31PM (#31786217)

You mean like Strom Thurmond, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Condoleezza Rice, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, Phil Graham, Jeane Kirkpatrick, George Wallace Jr and David Duke? All switched from Democrat to Republican and are either notable for high political office, or being racist. In some cases, both.

It is true that Civil Rights in 1964 began the switch. But it didn't really get going until Civil Rights Act (1964) really alienated Southern Democrats. Starting with Nixon's Southern First strategy, Republicans worked to appeal to them. With the rise of the religious right under Reagan there was a mass migration.

You can see https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-ov... to see that I'm not simply making this version of history up.

Did you have any references to it being just a "big lie"?

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by the_only_law on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:48PM (#31786891)

Dammit you weren't supposed to actually name any!

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Re:US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and service... by grzm on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:43PM (#31785903)

See this comment for more expansion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785350

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