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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is all just projecting the US's racist settler-colonial history on others. Only a tiny minority of nations were founded in this same way, based on indigenous genocide and eviction (Israel, Australia, Canada are a few others).

Most US states didn't even end miscegenation laws until the 1960s. It's the only country on earth that still has slavery in fact and in law, enshrined in the 13th amendment.

The US currently operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least 54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor. Outside of agricultural slavery, Federal Prison Industries operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies. 1, 2, 3

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I asked for a single country that was not racist in the 20th century, but had comparable diversity. You have not provided one yet.

The for-profit prison system is fucked for sure and no other country has fucked up this bad.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty much every African country, most of se asia, most of south america, probably all but maybe 10 countries.