Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by dkga on Friday January 10, 2025 @06:03PM (#42661356)

Into institutionalised slavery. Sadly slavery still exists, is live and well, and occurs throughout the planet (even rich countries). The difference is that it is not statutory now in most places.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by wahnfrieden on Friday January 10, 2025 @06:47PM (#42661734)

Slavery is at an all-time high going back thousands of years

2 million institutionalized slaves (per 13th amendment) in the US today, around the same as 1830 USA

50 million worldwide as of a few years ago

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by khimaros on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:09PM (#42662338)

could you say more about this or provide resources for learning more?

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by wahnfrieden on Friday January 10, 2025 @09:50PM (#42662850)

https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie...

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by gizmo686 on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:06PM (#42661883)

The 13th amendment allows for slavery as a punishment for crimes. It does not require that everyone in prison be a slave.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by wahnfrieden on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:13PM (#42661930)

Ok?

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:58PM (#42662259)

Are you actually claiming that everyone in a US prison is a slave?

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by BriggyDwiggs42 on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:05PM (#42662312)

The constitution allows that they be used for slave labor, and many are.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:07PM (#42662330)

But are they slaves by virtue of being in prison?

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by ponow on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:21PM (#42663022)

Don't commit the crime if you can't handle it. It's a punishment.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by lesuorac on Saturday January 11, 2025 @07:22AM (#42665403)

I think you mean, don't be poor.

It's not like people in prison are actually all guilty of their convicted crime.

You'll see this double-standard a lot for minor offenses as well. How many times has MKHB been caught excessively speeding (including 90? in a school zone) and still have a license.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by BriggyDwiggs42 on Saturday January 11, 2025 @05:09PM (#42669325)

We forbid cruel and unusual punishment. If we lived by the morality you just articulated, we wouldn’t do so. I think slavery is cruel and unusual, I think that’s clear.

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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by BriggyDwiggs42 on Saturday January 11, 2025 @05:10PM (#42669333)

You’re saying that only those forced to do labor would be slaves? Slaves aren’t made free by a lack of tasks. What’s your point?

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