Slaves are a Sub-Categorization of Humans
BIG TECH SURVEILLANCE And The Coming Alien Biosecurity Regime, Government Precedents Behind Alien Encounter Response, HEALTH CARE APPS AND WEBSITES TRUSTED TOOLS DISTRUSTED SYSTEMS, Human Categorization, Is the Government Prepared for an Alien Encounter, Slaves are a Sub-Categorization of Humans
Has history used legal paperwork to strip people of personhood? Repeatedly — the 1926 League of Nations Slavery Convention defined slavery as ownership rights over a person, and under France’s 1685 Code Noir, enslaved people were simultaneously property and criminally liable persons. The book argues this same bureaucratic sorting mechanism is what a future alien-contagion classification system would use against “contaminated” or unwanted populations. Throughout history, one of the most reliable ways a society justifies cruelty is by first redefining who counts as fully human. Long before anyone commits an atrocity, a legal or cultural system usually does the quieter work of sorting people into tiers — full persons, partial persons, property, or threats. The 1926 League of Nations Slavery Convention put the core mechanism in strikingly clinical terms, defining…