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Thinkers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt addressed this question decades ago, noting that the erosion of privacy is a hallmark of exploitative systems — such as plantation slavery, totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and patriarchy.
In the mid-20th Century, Belgian colonialists brought workers over from present-day Rwanda to staff their plantations, while others came on their own accord in search of a better life.
This third piece, Lyons acknowledges, is a bigger swing: The time-traveling buddy comedy follows two friends who, after smoking a uniquely potent blunt, get transported back to an active plantation.
Soon after, colonists started taking over Indigenous lands and enslaving people to cultivate their coffee plantations.
Insults follow crimes; anonymous texts sent to Black people after the election ordered them to report to the nearest plantation to pick cotton.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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