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I replied to this thread to say that the U.S. has little high ground to sanction China on the way it treats its prisoners and population based on incarceration
by smileysteve 7y ago
I replied to this thread to say that the U.S. has little high ground to sanction China on the way it treats its prisoners and population based on incarceration rates.
We aren't the worst for human rights violations. But, it's not acceptable that sexual assault is a legitimate threat to the extent that it's the butt of every prison joke.
We don't have to be the worst to realize we need to fix our problems; but there are clearly people in this thread that are unaware of the issues.
- chr1 7y agoI agree with the parent that the issues you show are not comparable with what is happening in china. Of course US as a country did many wrong things, for instance the treatment of native Indian people in 1800s was directly comparable to what is happening in china now. But the bad things a country did do not reduce its right of truthfully pointing out bad things other countries are doing.
- smileysteve 7y agoThe news articles I posted are from the last 2 years not 200 years ago. The Alabama chemical castration went on the books a few weeks ago. And why are you going back 200 years? Internment camps happened in the 40s and forced sterilization + syphylis guided as experiments happened into the 1980s... To free people, citizens even.