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Out of curiosity, what results do you get when you search "US White supremacist militia"?
Those seem like terrorist organizations to me, and I think the U$ has better "human rights" than Gaza.
The US has the largest system of prison slavery on earth, highly militarized police who kill with impunity, and world historical levels of wealth inequality, it's definitely not a good place for human rights.
Sure, but I'm trying to carry the conversation on terms they'll understand.
Fair
Better than gaza maybe, but I seriously hope that the US isn't your best example for a country with good human rights.
Nah, I just thought it'd work as an example with them.
You have a point. Though the US white supremesists haven't launched such organized and open assaults. So maybe it just scales with human rights abuses.
The Oklahoma City bombing was a white supremacist action, I believe.
That's a mid counter argument imo.
Ok
The USA has some of the worst human rights on earth, as evidenced by their massive prison population.
They don't need to because cops can just flat out murder people off the streets. And brownshirts are a thing too they show up at protests to harass the strikers. Also they're not under an active genocide (as much as they try to feign that they are) so there isn't a lot of violence gas to go ham with.
US white supremacists genocided countless Indian tribes. They also rounded them up in reservations and then enforced policies designed to kill them. Look up the Trail of Tears sometime.
There's also the terror campaigns waged by the various Ku Klux Klans and other organizations against African-Americans.
If you want something more recent there's also the Tulsa race massacre. There's also the many, many deputy gangs in the US. Those launch organized and open assaults against other Americans all the time but they're also very distributed so we don't have one big incident to point to.