The whole thing is so bizarre. There’s always been that historical connection and analogy, in regards to “debt slavery,” “wage slavery,” “debt bondage” and such. Goes back centuries, and is totally commonplace.
Yet the loony left is trying to create out of thin air some wacko new argument that the word “slavery” is the exclusive domain of blacks and loaded with intrinsic “hurt,” and anyone using it otherwise is an automatic racist. And, using this context to specifically gin up more white-hot hatred for Palin (and, ostensibly, all tea-party conservatives). Total fabrication, oblivious to historical reality, but given the sheer ignorance of the whole low-information Obama/MSNBC crowd, they undoubtedly eat up this entirely new ‘fabrication.’
You put the case perfectly. It is an entirely fabricated issue.
As in the uproar a few years ago over the use of master-slave to describe the configuration of computer drives.
There were indentured servants as well as slaves. Many of them were white. Many blacks were free in this country. Martin Bashir is an imbecile with a deep hatred for white people.
It's a biblical concept as well. Proverbs 22:7 "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."