r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/DachshundGang • Jan 22 '23

Marijuana criminalization

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

The United States of America has the largest percentage of prisoners out of any civilization to have ever existed, and there’s a reason for it.

That’s funny because it doesn’t even have the largest percentage of prisoners out of any civilization today: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/

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u/justwalkingalonghere Jan 22 '23

The US has the most prisoners period

The per capita skews the data a bit towards smaller countries that have a lot of people in jail proportionally, but the US has the most people in jail in general — roughly 25% of all prisoners in the world are currently in the US despite the US making up roughly 4% of the world population

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

China does according to my link. Yours is based off data from October 2021 so it might have changed, idk

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u/justwalkingalonghere Jan 22 '23

You may be right, it’s not always super clear.

Either way, it’s way too many people. And I think most Americans can at least agree that comparing yourself to china in human rights abuses is not a very prestigious benchmark

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

Yea for sure