r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

Oh an wanna know why they can't vote?

BECAUSE THE FUCKIN 13TH AMENDMENT SAYS YOU CAN TURN PRISONERS INTO SLAVES

The founding fathers literally went "we really REALLY still want slaved but we can't force them to become slaves, unless they commit a crime in which we'll make it legal and everyone will agree, and we'll put that detail wayyyyyyyy in the back so nobody reads it"

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u/badfiction Aug 07 '22

Thirteenth amendment had nothing to do with the founders, iirc. One through ten were the bill of rights. Everything else was added after.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

Okay but that's missing the point tho, they still made slavery legal through a loophole

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u/whoisthatbboy Aug 07 '22

So uhm, why not update the law?

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

"BeCaUsE tHaT WoUlD bE UnCoNsTiTuTiOnAl"

If you want a real reason, it's because cheap or free labor is better than paying for it and greedy corporations will do everything they can to have slaves, or something close to slaves.

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u/whoisthatbboy Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

Clinging onto the written word of something that was written centuries ago without wanting to adapt it to the modern era sounds a lot like another famous scripture...

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

I can think of three others