They will crank it all up to 1488%

This is so Steve Pinker coded: "humanity is safer now because fewer people are dying of violent causes, except if you consider indigenous populations and black and brown people in Africa and the Middle East. I will not count them! Only Civilized™ societies will be featured. Colonialism was just a blip, it’s in the past now! War is bad. I will not analyse it. " (He literally says he won’t count them in “Better Angels of our Nature”; he even uses fiction books as examples of how people lived under other historical times).