"North America Still Has Slavery" or "Like, Actual Slavery"

[Seil]

So, two parts here. First part, in America, tennis player Jean-Claude Toviave abducted children in Togo and brought them back to work at his home for him. (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/tennis-pro-sentenced-keeping-slaves-article-1.1298599)

Second part! Hong Kong couple brings nanny to Canada where she is forced to look after young children without rest or reprieve. (http://www.theprovince.com/news/bc/Court+hears+nanny+horror+story+trial+couple+worked/8451587/story.html)

So, while slavery is one of the most detestable crimes out there, just as much as human trafficking, and those persons responsible are being charged and are on trial, how the balls does this happen?!

First off, how was Toviave able to bring children to the states claiming they were his biological children?! How was the Canadian government not paying attention to Leticia Sarmiento once her Visitor's Visa had expired? How does this happen at all?

[Osterbaum]

Short answer: richers.
Long answer: rich people.

[Bum Bill Bee]

Aw shux, I thought this was gonna be about sex slaves.

[Krylo]

Aw shux, I thought this was gonna be about sex slaves.

Poor taste.

Please refrain from making jokes on this subject in the future.

[Satan's Onion]

Aw shux, I thought this was gonna be about sex slaves.

Like Krylo said--this definitely tends toward being creepy and uncomfortable. Please don't post these kinds of creepy and uncomfortable things.

[Bum Bill Bee]

What, you don't think sex slavery is a serious problem in the 21st century? Shee-it guys, a lot of the world's problems are creepy uncomfortable subjects. I'd think you'd know that, if youre coming to the News and Current Events section here.




Woman haters.

[shiney]

Okay, since a mod isn't enough, now an admin is telling you that one more word about it and our little bee problem around here will be handled in a most permanent fashion.

[Bum Bill Bee]

My shitty ass fetishes (which I'm sorry you had to hear about) do not sway my ideas on whats right and wrong in real life stuff. I hear about women in Nepal getting outright kidnapped or tricked with promises of honest work, then being sold into the human trafficking sex industry. They get all beaten and abused, and the childeren they have are beaten and abused also as a way of control. That stuff horrifies me and I want it to end. Now I don't know the sex slave situation in the US, but apparently its bad enough for my school paper to write an article about it.

Now when Krylo and Onion talk about stuff being "creepy and uncomfortable", that just comes across to me as a 1950's level of apathy.

So to summarize: I had genuine concerns on real life problems, and I inquired as to wether this thread was compatible with said problems. Quit trolling my ass with your half baked assumptions.

[Fenris]

So to summarize: I had genuine concerns on real life problems, and I inquired as to wether this thread was compatible with said problems. Quit trolling my ass with your half baked assumptions.

You should really work on how you communicate.

Your first post did not do anything to imply that you had "genuine concerns" or inquiries "as to whether this thread was compatible" with them. Say what you mean to say, and stop trying to be cutesy in a thread about slavery.

We're done talking about Bum Bill now. Do not respond to this post. Start responding to Seil's if you have something useful to say.

That goes for everybody.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Sadly its more common than you think. I've personally met a Vietnamese woman that was in her 40s, but when she was a child at age 12, she lived in Vietnam. What happened was the people that she would later call parents went to her family and bought her so that she could help around the house taking care of the actual biological children.

The story ended up having a nice ending as the family put papers down and legally adopting her, and helping her through college and such as well. Does that mean what the initial intent on this was a good or a bad thing? I mean the original purpose of getting her was so she could help raise other kids, and turned it into helping her grow a life here in the states.

[Bells]

Modern life also generates new forms of slavery. You don't even have to go to the more brutal and real bad things that happen everyday. We have corporations that make a fortune by paying just barely enough to keep people showing up to work one more day and that relates with their employees in terms of menace and imposing everything all the time. And dare you not to consider using the full extent of your rights... that's not "teamwork" for them.

Not really the same degree as being born and raise to cut sugar cane fields for pennies or being forced to sell candy on stop signs to get money for adults to buy drugs... but slavery has also evolved with the times and has become more subtle, but not less scary.