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20% of the worlds prison population (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago

Instead of being in prison, they were dying out off hunger and concentration camps... There are idiots supporting US, and hypocrites supporting china...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

1970 was during the cultural revolution. In that year, the world population was 3.68 billion, and the population if China was just shy of 830 million - China had 22% of the world's population, so if they held (only) 20% of the world's prisoners, they'd have a lower than average incarceration rate.

The same is not true for the US today, we have less than 5% of the world's population today.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

ITT: Liberals who assume that evil Chinese MUST be lying about their statistics but the above board whites of the USA are not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The red army of china didn't really take prisoners.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

What are you talking about have you never heard of ~~emperor~~ Comrade Puyi?

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