[even_639765]

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[oersted]

There's obvious utility in learning about the specific tools and methods that have been successfully employed in the past to enforce covert oppression in a democracy, so we can collectively protect against them.

If you want a more down-to-earth argument: it's just plain interesting and there's good constructive discussion to be had about it.

PS: The website is called Open Culture: The best free cultural & education media on the web. I'm not sure what you mean by "tech blog", if you are referring to HN, non-tech posts are fairly common here and they are valued.

[dghf]

Haiti, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Greece all abolished slavery before the UK did.

[detruzs]

Maybe. But they are not necessarily doing as good a job enforcing it.

https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/map/

[even_639765]

Does this undermine my point ?Or underline it? For the first 5,000 years of human civilization, slavery was an accepted institution by all peoples everywhere.

[majewsky]

This is not a blog.