Slavery

[MC Twinkie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/...s/forced_labor

New artical in the news. Yeah yeah slavery is shocking. I find it funny its not the white people keeping slaves this time. What was really of interest to me was this:

One of the workers arrived in the Sabhnanis' Muttontown home in 2002; the second came in 2005. The Sabhnanis immediately confiscated the servants' passports and other travel documents, the women testified.

Prosecutors suggest the women are due more than $1.1 million, including overtime, but defense attorneys said the figure should be much lower.

How the hell much do house keepers make these days?!? even if that is 1.1 million together, you got 3-4 years for one girl and 6-7 for the other. So maybe a total of 10 years. 1.1 million over 10 years, thats 110K a year. No fucking way! Not even with overtime. I'm in the wrong line of work that is for sure.

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Well, I dunno about "slavery" but there are still "servant people" all over the place, my dad owns, I mean has, three. In the P.I lol.

[MC Twinkie]

Is servant a PC term? It doesn't seem that way to me in the modern age. Maybe maid or cleaning lady. Are you talking about illegal mexicans? Basically those people are kind of screwed because if they are mistreated and go to the police they still get deported. Not that I feel sorry for them. The problem is the people employing them, thats fucked up.

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No, they're filipinos, and my dad lives there in the Philipinnes. He has one watch over his son, one cook and clean, and another to run errands and do maintenace or whatever. He pays some of them cash, and pays their tuition some times.. it's really super common to have that over there. Working for the white man, pays really really really really well, since it costs so little to live there. But it's not like they're his "slaves" or anything.

It's funny, the word they all use there, instead of saying "guy" or "dude" or "hey buddy" is "DONG". So all day every day you hear people screaming "Dong!!!" FIrst day I was there, it was a very "wtf" :shiftyeyes: moment.

lol.

[Sinner]

maybe they were asking you a question, robin... like "would you like some dong?"

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No, I specifically asked my dad why he was saying "Dong!" out the window of our car when he wanted to buy some mangos and bottles of waters from the little boy children pesants walking in the middle of the road... lol. And he said, that's the slang for "Hey, guy." I chuckled.

[Leo_J]

maybe its just what they call the white people....like when us mexicans call white people bolillos...lol

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No man it's what all the people there call all the other dudes. I heard it yelled like a thousand times a day, it was hilarious.

I doubt they even know what "our version" of "dong" means.

[C-fer]

I think indentured servitude is the preferred nomenclature. And you know if a minority(even though us whiteys are becomming the minority every day in america) could have a slave... eh hem indentured servant they would. Screw race all together, who wouldn't want someone to do their dirty work? I blame the media for putting it all on white people. Shit it's been 400+ years let us off the hook already!

[MC Twinkie]

I thought indentured servitude was like if your job was to dig a ditch, but you didn't have a shovel, you could rent one from your boss. Your job pays 10$ and renting the shovel costs 9$. Basically the cost of doing your job is as much or more than what you get paid for the job. Which is pretty much most of lower class america, except welfare people. Its a pretty fine line between that an people that just live beyond thier means.

Damn I want to be a white slave. It sounds like it pays better than my current job. Maybe I would even get a woman that would make me "service" her as part of the job.

[BradH]

Originally Posted by clay donkey

I thought indentured servitude was like if your job was to dig a ditch, but you didn't have a shovel, you could rent one from your boss. Your job pays 10$ and renting the shovel costs 9$. Basically the cost of doing your job is as much or more than what you get paid for the job. Which is pretty much most of lower class america, except welfare people. Its a pretty fine line between that an people that just live beyond thier means.

Damn I want to be a white slave. It sounds like it pays better than my current job. Maybe I would even get a woman that would make me "service" her as part of the job.

Yeah, and you have to buy your freedom or some shit.


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A servant is not fucking slavery. I dunno why people are confusing it. Slavery normally involves harsh treatment of the individual and they have no rights and are forced to do whatever work the owner sees fit. Paying someone to be a nanny and clean your house is not slavery. Locking them up in a room and beating them is. Obviously a slave can fill a servant ROLE, but they are still a slave doing the job they are forced to do.

[MC Twinkie]

And I will pay for that freedom in blood!

you don't pay slaves, thats the difference.

[TheAmazon]

if you look at the definition of slave, not being paid at all is not a requirment, as long as a person has to work very hard for a master with out proper payment of such work is a slave...so

ie. share croppers and indentured servants= slave


in the historical sense a person who is legal property of another and is forced to obey them (indentured servitude)

and the word servitude comes from service..which comes from latin slavus.

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I like playing Slave/Owner at home with my bf.

[Alexis Gold]

Me too. But I got called Sadistic like it's a bad thing