re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I know that you are being rhetorical or paraphrasing some people’s thoughts/positions.

The point is that that slavery was but no longer is part of the USA and its values. And that is an ongoing aspect of the “woke/cancel/PC” discussion: just because something was accepted back then does not make it acceptable now.

I’m not being rhetorical, though I am paraphrasing some positions.

As for not acceptable now, there is a large portion of the country which never gave up on the idea of slavery not being acceptable. Sharecropping was just a legal way around the prohibition of slavery. Company stores worked the same way. In a sense, health insurance tied to employment is as well.

Moreover, versions of sharecropping are returning in the modern day to the USA.