Sometimes you hear about a country or state or province abolishing some antiquated law that could never ever be enforced in the modern world under more authoritative legal codes, and hasn't even been incidentally enforced for like well over 100 years, and it's very obvious that someone stumbled into this law by accident and was like whoa we never officially said this is mega turbo illegal, we should probably get around to that! And then they do. And inevitably you will then find a tumblr post about it that insists on acting like the law was being enforced until a few weeks ago when it was repealed, and uses the good will gesture of going through the trouble of getting rid of a completely unenforceable law as proof that that government is The Most Oppressive Governorment On Earth that still allows the mutilation and murder of legally owned slaves, and this person is talking about, like, France in 2026.
And I just want to say that when you guys do that, it really disincentivizes governments from bothering to officially repeal laws that have been totally unenforceable for 176 years. If bringing attention to these historical leftovers is only going to result in a bunch of bad faith actors cosplaying as progressives trying to convince a bunch of Twitter morons that France was participating in the Atlantic Slave Trade until 8 weeks ago. Then lawmakers are just gonna decide it's not worth it.
