Posted on 07/23/2018 10:46:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Iran is on the list. I am surprised about Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Both countries have been known to recruit the “guest workers,” particularly domestics.
And then keep them.
What other kind? Maybe robots some day??
You laugh? Already the use of some work-animals - horses pulling carriages around the streest of NY, circus animals, work-elephants in Thailand, for instance - are often being referred to these days as a form of slavery. Not what I am advocating, merely what is.
Read the article? That’s crazy talk. I actually did read the article, went to 2 of the embedded links saw an article about Christians being persecuted, scanned the other linked article and never saw a top 50 list. So, thanks for your help FReeper.
According to the Wall Street Journal, in 2016 there were 18 million slaves in India.
https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/06/02/india-has-the-most-people-living-in-modern-slavery/
From the WSJ article you referenced:
“from domestic to sexual to bonded and child labor. The term refers to a situation in which a person has taken away another’s freedom so they can be exploited.”
A part of the above definition does not look like the classic understanding of slavery that we have been used to.
Let’s talk about child labor... here are some questions:
1) If the child does not want to work in the place, is he still FORCED to work there against his will?
2) Can the child be “sold” to another owner?
If the answer is “No”, then this is a modern redefinition of slavery as we understand it.
Now wait a cotton-pickin' minute, are you trying to subvert the longstanding FR tradition of NOT reading the article???
:-)
Absolutely correct! We don't need to read the articles; they just need to make clearer headlines!
If they went to the top 20 nations with slavery still present, you'd see the dominance of Muslim states more clearly.
Here, the remaining/previous communist dictatorships dominate the top 10. Saudi Arabia (and many other Muslim kingdoms) did not “officially outlaw” formal slavery as a national legally-identified practice until the mid-1960’s. The abuses (at the personal and family and individual levels) remains very, very common. Not the majority, but very common.
None from Elbonia.
Dilbert’s CEO bought some but had to let them go.
The American slave plantation has not changed in its characteristics from pre Civil War to today except it is now mostly urban.
America’s not on the list?
When did this happen?
I KNEW there was a reason JohnRob limited the headline length to 100 characters -- otherwise the headlines would stretch out ad infinitum... but only for the sake of clarity, of course!
The USA is #1 in slavery.
Every single person who has a student loan is a slave to a bank and if they don’t think so then they can try to stop paying their loans and see what happens.
Pattern here? Islam?
I thought it would be the Democrat Party...they are so disappointed....they are trying harder to getting Socialists elected in 2018...
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