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I'm starting to empathize with Texas trying to leave the Union. (self.casualconversation)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by pebbles to c/[email protected]

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I never really understood, but now that that house bill passed that may end up blocking AI regulation from individual States. I get it. I don't like knowing that even if everyone in my state wanted to stop companies from using AI for hiring decisions, we couldn't.

Texans, I feel you.

Edit: I'm learning a lot about Texas in this thread. Thanks for all the context folks.

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[–] pebbles 2 points 2 weeks ago

What proportion of Texan's incarcerated population is forced to labour for next to no salary again?

This would be my first time actually.

Hint: no.

I always appreciate the hints.

Slavery is alive and well in the USA, and Texas is one of its largest users thereof now. So yes, I think the average modern Texan secessionist would be pro-slavery … because they already are.

Yeah I didn't really consider their prison population, solid point. Prison slavary is bad. Though I think it is good to note scale differences. Both are bad, it's just that slavery was much much worse in the past.

According to https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bouton/History407/SlaveStats.htm

During slavery in the US about 1/3 of folks in the south were slaves. Compared to the 0.4% of today in Texas that's pretty staggering.

So yeah, I'd go far enough to say that the average Texan isn't pro-slavery in the sense that immediately hits my mind. Enough belive prison labor though, so you can't say the aren't pro slavery.