I think we can just do a 1:1 comparison. I bet the US has the largest number of political prisoners per capita of any other nation. Every single american in prison for a non-violent crime is a political prisoner. When we stop accepting their weird premises and just think about it from first principles.
500,000 Incarcerated for Drug Crimes
50,000 ICE detainees
%0.16 of the us population are political prisoners
1,500,000 Uyghurs in camps
%0.11 of the chinese population are political prisoners.
And this is me giving the US media the benefit of the doubt and letting them supply the numbers. By any reasonable metric, we're simply worse than china.
I think we can just do a 1:1 comparison. I bet the US has the largest number of political prisoners per capita of any other nation. Every single american in prison for a non-violent crime is a political prisoner. When we stop accepting their weird premises and just think about it from first principles.
500,000 Incarcerated for Drug Crimes
50,000 ICE detainees
%0.16 of the us population are political prisoners
1,500,000 Uyghurs in camps
%0.11 of the chinese population are political prisoners.
And this is me giving the US media the benefit of the doubt and letting them supply the numbers. By any reasonable metric, we're simply worse than china.
It’s actually not even per capita. It’s absolute numbers too, despite China having over three times as many people.