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minus-square@Dragonstaff@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglish-6•8 months agoThis is exactly what America is and always has been.
minus-square@BenLeMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•8 months agoNo, America the Beautiful would never force citizens of foreign descent into camps! Certainly not on account of racism! And not in the hundreds of thousands!
minus-squareLemminarylinkfedilink1•8 months agoNot quite. Things got way better and are still better than they used to be. This is not what the US is today, don’t fool yourself.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoI mean Gitmo is a camp for political prisoners that were not justly convicted by a jury of their peers. If your body has a small group of cancerous cells, you still have cancer, and we don’t call it ‘only a little cancer’, we call it early stage.
minus-square@Dragonstaff@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoWhat percentage of the world’s prison population does the US incarcerate?
minus-square@JonsJava@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agohttps://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/
minus-square@Dragonstaff@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoAmerica, shining city on a hill slightly better than Turkmenistan.
This is exactly what America is and always has been.
No, America the Beautiful would never force citizens of foreign descent into camps! Certainly not on account of racism! And not in the hundreds of thousands!
Not quite. Things got way better and are still better than they used to be. This is not what the US is today, don’t fool yourself.
I mean Gitmo is a camp for political prisoners that were not justly convicted by a jury of their peers.
If your body has a small group of cancerous cells, you still have cancer, and we don’t call it ‘only a little cancer’, we call it early stage.
What percentage of the world’s prison population does the US incarcerate?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/
America,
shining city on a hillslightly better than Turkmenistan.