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The U.S. Homicide Rate is 60% Higher than Iran’s; Yet The U.S. Calls Iran“Barbaric”
(hrnews1.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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US is a very barbaric society. low education, no healthcare, daily mass shootings are so common they are no longer in the news...
Both can be barbaric.
it's not a race to the bottom.
and with the US, you don't need a hat, the color of your skin if reason enough for the state to kidnap/kill you.
TBF this administration has made strides in equality to include white people in the killings. (/s, in case it isn’t obv)
I'm calling the game you're playing barbaric
extra, "Barbarian" was a roman term to make fun of people by the way of their language. Pardon my example, but that's the same as calling Asia "Chingchong". it was racist as fuck back in the Roman times, but because we forgot that meaning, so we still use it. and somehow the modern meaning of "Uncivilized violent dirty people's" is even more racist than the Roman usage.
Who was killed for not wearing a hat? When was that?
This woman died of police brutality, this happens a lot in the us, here is a list for January of this year.
Add to that all the mysterious deaths, like this one, or the people dying in ICE custody
I am saying that cops are bastards, no matter where. It doesn't matter if they arrest you for not wearing a hijab, or for looking like a Mexican.
Every country has their share of police brutality, it just gets worse in autocratic governments. But demonizing Iranians as barbarians will not contribute to the solution of the problem, and only feed the racism towards people of middle eastern heritage.
How bout a place where you can get beat up or killed for wearing a facemask?
I wish for a society in which you don't have to choose whether to get beat up or killed for wearing a face mask or hat.