Nathaniel Downes: Uyghur life expectancy is higher than most US demographic groups, with only white women and Asians of both genders being higher. Probably not a good example to use.

Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

Uyghur life expectancy is higher than most US demographic groups, with only white women and Asians of both genders being higher. Probably not a good example to use.

It's a great example to use. Because US life expectancy is lower for all demographics because of racism. Black folk get it the worst, but there's self-own blowback. Eg racist people are so angry at the idea that a Black person might get free healthcare, that they vote against it for themselves too🤷🏿‍♂️

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Attached: 1 image In the UK, Black people have higher BMIs, and live longer. Black men in the UK, live even longer than white women in the US. Black people in the UK live about 20% longer than the US...

And because Black people should have the *highest* life expectancy, barring societal and environmental racism.🙂🙃 We see this play out in the UK. The things that kill humans of old age are heart disease and cancer. A population that gets these at a lower rate, tends to live longer.

Ah, gotcha now. We are now on the same page.

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