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MarineCombatEngineer

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8. What part of it being voluntary don't you understand?

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:56 AM

Jan 2025

They're at the fire camps because they want to be there, not because they're forced to be there and many released inmate firefighters go on to be wildland firefighters with either state or federal firefighting organizations.

Slave labor would be if they were forced to fight these fires against their will, so it is demeaning and disrespectful to call it slave labor.

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No, it is not, MarineCombatEngineer Jan 2025 #6

No it's not disrespectful JustAnotherGen Jan 2025 #7

What part of it being voluntary don't you understand? MarineCombatEngineer Jan 2025 #8

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NOTHING about race in this. 👎 nt Raine Jan 2025 #14