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It's forced labor in the sense that Obama advocated forcing people to perform labor. The gulag was vastly worse. So what?



So what? The use of the term makes it appear that you are equating getting a kid to do homework with the Gulag's arrests, interrogations, transport in unheated cattle cars, forced labor, destruction of families, years spent in exile, and the early and unnecessary deaths.




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