I think things like this do have a place, but need to work in teams of a sort.
Hyperbole works to rile people up and gain attention to a topic as long as your correction still demonstably looks worse than America. For example "Yeah this is an exaggeration but current modern american prisons do kill more than the gulag did [sources etc]."
The response "oh shit that's bad" and the original hyperbole doesn't undermine it.
This obviously hinges upon a good number of people being able to do the correction though.
I think things like this do have a place, but need to work in teams of a sort.
Hyperbole works to rile people up and gain attention to a topic as long as your correction still demonstably looks worse than America. For example "Yeah this is an exaggeration but current modern american prisons do kill more than the gulag did [sources etc]."
The response "oh shit that's bad" and the original hyperbole doesn't undermine it.
This obviously hinges upon a good number of people being able to do the correction though.