This isn’t meant to be a call-out or anything, but I think we should resist the urge to explain how bad certain things in the US are by comparing them to scary nonspecific foreigners. It seems to me the worst aspects of US society are largely home-grown and then sometimes exported. Eventually the impulse to say “this isn’t what America is/should be, this is what they do in lesser societies” stops making sense.
America has the highest prison population in the world and they’re treated little better than prisoners in African dictatorships.
Reminds me of how Liberia has a better-functioning democracy, too
This isn’t meant to be a call-out or anything, but I think we should resist the urge to explain how bad certain things in the US are by comparing them to scary nonspecific foreigners. It seems to me the worst aspects of US society are largely home-grown and then sometimes exported. Eventually the impulse to say “this isn’t what America is/should be, this is what they do in lesser societies” stops making sense.