Comment by meristohm
9 months ago
American here, and I think your stance is reasonable. Authoritarian regimes are harmful, and a boycott is one approach. I'm skeptical that there's a significant increase in violence, though; maybe that's news amplification? Far too many Black, Indigenous, and other non-white people have been murdered here over the centuries (by the US Army, by cops, by posses, etc), and that continues apace.
this.
although i suspect there has been an increase in like random "mass" violence, but that effects a tiny fraction of the population (but certainly scares the rest). My guess is there has not been an increase in population effected by violence -- but that could be because the USA has always been a very violent place, founded on violence (by Europeans and for the benefit of Europe, so don't get too smug).