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Does the U.S. incarcerate people based on their religion?

• ncmncm 5y ago
  Does it matter? A pretext is a pretext. In fact, there have been a great many Americans railroaded into prison for, essentially, being Muslim, for refusing to try to entice other Muslims to engage in attempts at domestic terrorism so that they can be imprisoned, just to burnish somebody's resume. But mostly black people are railroaded into prison for being black. Do you imagine that is less bad?
  • jollybean 5y ago
    "A pretext is a pretext." ???? No. A 'crime' is a legitimate pretext for putting someone in jail. Being of a certain ethnicity is not a reason for putting someone in jail. I can't believe I am reading this. And your statements about 'putting Muslims in jail for being Muslim' and But mostly 'black people are railroaded into prison for being black' are completely false. People are put in jail for crimes, whereupon the justice system in some cases may not be fully equally applied and FYI if anything the Justice System is heavy in the US to the point whereupon supposedly privileged group face nearly equally excessive oversight from the system - which is altogether a different problem.
    • ncmncm 5y ago
      Your ability to believe is not salient. And, it is a fact that black people are overwhelmingly over-represented in the US prison population. It is not because they commit more crimes, but because black people are arrested more, convicted more, and sentenced more, for identically the same behavior as non-black people. If that is different from being incarcerated because they are black, the difference is too small for me to perceive. You seem to be insisting that racism does not exist in the US. Noted.