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why does that matter if the outcomes are comparably despicable? In fact that seems _more_ damning to the US people
by bllguo 6y ago
why does that matter if the outcomes are comparably despicable? In fact that seems _more_ damning to the US people
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- gruez 6y ago>why does that matter if the outcomes are comparably despicable How are they comparable? The black incarceration rate in the US is around 2.3%[1], meanwhile the incarceration rate for Uyghurs is estimated to be around 10%-15%[2][3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China
- jessaustin 6y agoUSA has 4% of the world's population and 25% of its prisoners. We are the worst on earth, in the history of earth. No wonder we invented "whataboutism".
- sudosysgen 6y ago"Whataboutism" is such a baffling concept. The fact that it has been invented much less widely adopted is insane to me.
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- gruez 6y agoYeah, if your metric is "percentage of people imprisoned", then yeah, we are the worst. I'm not sure how it's relevant to my reply or this comment chain, which is discussing the treatment of dissidents and ethnic minorities. You and the person I was initially replying to are trying to derail/move move the goalposts to incarceration rate. Funny you mention whataboutism, because there's a distinct lack of it here. No one here is justifying America's incarceration rates by saying "the other side" does the same.