The article is about tariffs on China, this is thread is all about China, you responded to a post about human rights violations in China.
I'm not saying the US is perfect, but compared to China right now the US is .
Redlining, racial-profiling, school-prison pipeline, pay discrimination, voter id laws that discriminate against minorities... I can go on and on.
> I'm not saying the US is perfect, but compared to China right now the US is
No its not. They are not comparable and shouldn't be. You think the US is great because I'm assuming you belong to socio-economic classes that have granted you a great quality of life and freedoms which are theoretically promised to all US citizens. But in practise, they are not and the situation is much more nuanced.
> No its not. They are not comparable and shouldn't be.
Why can you not compare two countries' human rights?
> But in practise, they are not and the situation is much more nuanced.
It is more nuanced as you suggest, the difference is that the government of China is busy locking up muslims, and the US is busy passing anti discrimination laws.
It doesn't matter and I frankly don't care what you want. Slavery was technically illegal after the Civil War and yet you still had Jim Crow; similarly racism is technically illegal but there continues to be systemic racism in the US, whether or not promoted by Government policy. To the millions of African-Americans incarcerated for possession of Marijuana, it doesn't matter whether there are protections for minorities, because the laws are not enforced. The War on Drugs was a euphemism for a war on minority communities.
> It is more nuanced as you suggest, the difference is that the government of China is busy locking up muslims, and the US is busy passing anti discrimination laws.
No, its not that simple either. The US is busy locking up immigrants... what do you say to that? Or about locking up minorities for minor infractions, while whites go scot-free? What about that?
Its not simple, which is why it must not be compared. You are allowed to criticize China for its human rights record, but they are equally free to criticize you for yours. What is not OK is to spread the lie that the US is some sort of utopia of human rights when its clearly not, and has not been ever since its inception.
I suppose you could say there are more minorities in jail, but minorities tend to be more on the poverty line which is an easy explanation, I would be interested in a study on the treatment of only those in poverty.
Illegal immigrants should be deported, legal immigrants should not be.
The US is not a utopia, but my point was china is looking more and more like Big Brother in 1984.