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the reason stuff like this gets downvoted is that it's pretty counterproductive to list a country's sins every single time an article remotely relevant is posted, to have it devolve in to a flame war
Many people I know live considerable time of the year in Thailand and they are very supportive of the country but in my opinion this particular legislation clearly reminds that not everything is good there and there exists a considerable risk to personal freedom.
I think that we should be vocal about this and not accept it as a "local peculiarity" - voicing disagreement actually can change the world to a better place as silently accepting a wrongdoing clearly does not.
Similarly we should not close our eyes in case of US when it is gravitation toward less freedom. But this news is not about US.
- New rare earth metal reserves found in Utah
- How will this affect the notorious police-on-black brutality issue?
PS. If you can (e.g. you are an American) then please explain it to a non-American. I looked at the available statistics (deaths by police) and while the overall statics of Utah looks bad, there is also very small black population in Utah, meaning that even small level of serious criminal activity would easily skew the statics and indeed the number of killings by police is usually 1 in a year or even 0 as happened in 2016 and 2023 or 2013 and some extra bad year like 2018 will considerably affect the statistics.
So why is Utah notorious but for example Vermont or Oregon is not?
Of course to an European the number of people killed by police in US is simply mind blowing. But what is even more mind blowing is number of homicides, especially among young people, but (really) notoriously among black people. Close to 50% of homicide victims are black people but they only form 10% of the population.
It is even worse, much worse, when the statics is age and sex adjusted https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7226a9.htm
My sincere question is - why to focus on these 12 deaths over 10 years and not on all these close to 100,000 deaths?
- Ah! That same country that is going back to the 50s in women's rights? - Ah! That some country that had the most gold medals in the last olympic?
I'm guessing not. Why should it be acceptable to say something completely unrelated about Thailand? It's even worse if it's something negative.
It would be fine if it were something relevant about Thailand (their mining legislation, for example)
Second it was told most likely because it is the newest news about Thailand https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/world/asia/thailand-sente...
Perhaps it has even become a defining feature of Thailand.