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0 pointsJuliate6y ago0 comments

Right.

So, indeed, compare USA's violence score with: * those of the countries where the USA have put their own violent influence to steer benefits back to them (Central & South America). * or those where another white supremacist ideology has been prevalent and is being actively fought against (South Africa).

But, surely, don't compare with countries that would be good reference to compare against (aka, friends with which you ought to have shared some common history, like, Europe).

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tomatotomato376y ago

This is a false equivalence; The foreign policy of the state has nothing to do with the levels of violence between its citizens.

JuliateOP6y ago

The point was not comparing foreign policy, but in-society violence. Foreign policy here is what triggered instability and in-society violence.

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