• s_s@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Poverty in Kentucky and wider Appalachia is still a very real and very serious problem.

    It’s very hopeless feeling and was hit extremely hard by the opioid crisis.

    I’m sure it was bad 100 years ago, too–although alcoholism was usually the drug of choice back then.

    Lots of systematic suffering. Children growing up in the nightmares their parents created for them.

    But it’s not slavery, lol.

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      9 months ago

      This is the best response to this. Slavery is kind of at that “Hitler point”. Like, if you don’t like somebody they’re literally Hitler. If you had hardships it’s literally slavery.

      No folks, you don’t have to have the most extreme take to bring legitimacy to a problem. In fact, it really invalidates your point.