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"If you think I'm a slow runner, just wait until you see my son's primary school class!" Compare yourself to your peers. What's the point of merely trying to b

"If you think I'm a slow runner, just wait until you see my son's primary school class!" Compare yourself to your peers. What's the point of merely trying to be better than Rwanda.

lazide 3y ago
Have you ever even been to Rwanda? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
- coldtea 3y ago
  You don't need to have visited a place to be informed about some aspect of it, or to have a good enough idea based on related facts about it and the region's track record to use it as an example in casual conversation. In any case, here you go: "Prison conditions in Rwanda today remain harsh and harrowing – especially for those incarcerated for daring or perceived by the authorities to challenge the government’s narrative. Today Rwanda’s prisons are overcrowded at 174% of capacity – with the second highest incarceration population rate (that is, the number of prisoners per 100,000 of the national population) outside America, according to the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research. The institute listed Rwanda’s total prison population at just over 76,000 – out of a national population of a little over 13 million. Rwanda’s prisoners include thousands detained in connection with the 1994 genocide, the report added". or "significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions" I think you're under the wrong impression that when the parent said "Rwanda" they meant Rwanda specifically, and they didn't just use it as a stand-in for "well known third world country" with the understanding that such countries usually have horrible prison conditions.
  - lazide 3y ago
    All but a handful of very sheltered countries have horrible prison conditions. Rwanda also has had a history of murdering vast numbers of folks, very recently, because of religious affiliation. My point is, what’s up with the ridiculousness of these claims?

"If you think I'm a slow runner, just wait until you see my son's primary school class!" Compare yourself to your peers. What's the point of merely trying to be better than Rwanda.

lazide 3y ago

Have you ever even been to Rwanda? Or are you just talking out of your ass?

coldtea 3y ago
You don't need to have visited a place to be informed about some aspect of it, or to have a good enough idea based on related facts about it and the region's track record to use it as an example in casual conversation. In any case, here you go: "Prison conditions in Rwanda today remain harsh and harrowing – especially for those incarcerated for daring or perceived by the authorities to challenge the government’s narrative. Today Rwanda’s prisons are overcrowded at 174% of capacity – with the second highest incarceration population rate (that is, the number of prisoners per 100,000 of the national population) outside America, according to the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research. The institute listed Rwanda’s total prison population at just over 76,000 – out of a national population of a little over 13 million. Rwanda’s prisoners include thousands detained in connection with the 1994 genocide, the report added". or "significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions" I think you're under the wrong impression that when the parent said "Rwanda" they meant Rwanda specifically, and they didn't just use it as a stand-in for "well known third world country" with the understanding that such countries usually have horrible prison conditions.
- lazide 3y ago
  All but a handful of very sheltered countries have horrible prison conditions. Rwanda also has had a history of murdering vast numbers of folks, very recently, because of religious affiliation. My point is, what’s up with the ridiculousness of these claims?