This thread uncovered something very interesting - the rapid response of a professional trolling org means they're monitoring what I say, and put a high quality pseudointellectual troll on to try to discredit the parallels between 19th century slavers and modern private prisons.
Yes. I know that the first tweet is not perfect - in 280 characters, there's no way it could address all of the similarities and differences between the two situations.
But it seems to have struck a nerve with one troll in particular, who is working through their playbook.
And that investment of resources is the hallmark of an argument they're scared will hit the mainstream.
Not only is it playing to the dismissal of the original argument, but it's attempting to exacerbate any previously existing distrust between Black Americans and latinos...
Because they know: if Black Americans realize the parallel between the use of Black bodies and suffering for profit and the modern use of Hispanic bodies for profit... that incarceration of Hispanic immigrants is slavery without labor, where value is extracted from the Govt...
If that happened, they realize they'd be done.
So take a look at this thread, especially some of my responses that they refuse to address.
How can this be refined message to convey the concept in twitter-friendly format without disrespecting experiences of slaves or migrants?
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