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> There are plenty of things wrong with the US but blatant treating of lesser-privileged people like animals is something that isn't well tolerated here.

Eh, that's flattering, but there are many ways of treating lesser privileged people like animals that are socially acceptable in the US, e.g. homelessness, prison slave labor, healthcare, immigrants, the whole "tough on crime" schtick, just off the top of my head.

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There are all for the most part special cases. Most people aren’t homeless, in prison, illegal immigrants, etc.

This is just what-about-ism.

Clearly what the person was talking about was how PEOPLE tend to treat others, in vast numbers, so that it’s common to be an offender and even more common to be on the receiving end.

There are not 100 million people in the US actively poorly treating 250 million others like cattle.

dismissing what is often the lowest income part of a country as a minority is a pretty useless tautology. Of course the poorest people are the poorest.

>There are not 100 million people in the US actively poorly treating 250 million others like cattle.

So it's okay when it's maybe 10,000 people treating 320 million others like cattle?

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