"We are all slaves anyways"

You often hear people trying to liken slavery of the past (from the Bible to the slaves of Africans) to "slavery" of today. Now in some countries, there really is slavery.

The question is, is there slavery in America right now?

Legally, there can't be. But in a different post I mentioned slavery can still exist, if you disguise it as something else, and give enough freedoms or rights to make one think they aren't in slavery.

The definition of slavery is very general and light.

It essentially means, being forced against your will to do something.

By those means, one could argue that at some point every human has probably been treated like a slave, and in a sense, is a slave to someone. (for example being a minor, you are forced to do things you don't want to do because of your age).

Except, the problem is, when we do that, when we say we are slaves as if in the same sense of past slavery, we are insulting those who really were in a true slavery.

We are insulting those forced to have sex currently as we speak in sexual slavery. We are insulting blacks who were forced to be slaves for hundreds of years.

I once told this girl in class as we were talking about water, and I said "America's most dirtiest drinking water is cleaner than many of the third world's primary drinking water". She and the girl next to her agreed.

America does this alot, we try to compare our worst of right now to a worst that is more than twice as bad, so bad that comparing it is a major insult to the true and harrowing experiences that someone has to go through because of it.