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TIL Mail order brides were a real thing (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the unironic way. I expected it to exist in some form, but being this formalized? wow.
Anyway it's apparently still a thing https://inspirationalwomenseries.com/mail-order-bride-sites/ yikes-2

And you used to be able to get them from Ukraine! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3249478/

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw an ad from the like 1930s for buying "healthy" indigenous children from those residential schools to do farm/house work and "raise" until adulthood.

settler colonial states and their affection for slave labor are inseparable.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

not just slavery, not just child labor