>Who brought up the "west" in this context? and why is it so important?
Anybody interested to see if this is anything special about this case, or just the standard amount that goes on everywhere.
Singling out some country for something that happens everywhere, wouldn't be that different than someone saying "immigrants from X did Y amount of violent crimes" to paint them as particularly violent, when the number might be totally proportional to their share of the population and/or some controls for income level.
Anybody interested to see if this is anything special about this case, or just the standard amount that goes on everywhere.
Singling out some country for something that happens everywhere, wouldn't be that different than someone saying "immigrants from X did Y amount of violent crimes" to paint them as particularly violent, when the number might be totally proportional to their share of the population and/or some controls for income level.