Comment by SideburnsOfDoom 3 days ago
It's a very US thing that for every fine principle such as presumption of innocence, there is an equal and opposite "loophole" or way to bend the rules, that is allowed to make that principle far less effective.
I disagree; the gap is way wider in the US than the countries that the US would like to compare itself to. It's easy to say "they're all as bad as each other", but it's usually inaccurate, and always dismissive.
Correct, it's a 'human' thing - nothing peculiar to US.
Another example would be the fine principle of democracy, and the loopholes of gerrymandering and selective voter suppression.
It makes more sense when you ask "Who bears the burden of these loopholes?" and the answer is always "They disadvantage people of colour".
That's not a US thing, that's an every country everywhere thing.