Wasn't "concentration camp" a euphemism, too?
I mean, most people know people are not doing any "camping" at such a place, but....still.
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Camp means encampment. Which refers to temporary or light shelter, usually for a group. And the term "concentration camp" is from the 1800s.
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Most "untoward" things become more well known from their euphemisms. This is just a rare non-sex case.
And like the Germans in WW2, the Americans are also starving and beating these people, but they’ve outsourced that shit to nations like El Salvador to obscure the atrocities.
2,000 INMATES GLOOMY
I didn't realize how long the NYT had been like this.
Behind the Bastards did a good piece on the arguable complicity of the Times in the Holocaust over journalistic "neutrality".
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Had trump not pretended to want to reopen Alcatraz and everyone rightly thought he was a fool. I imagine how outraged everyone would have that he actually build this concentration camp in Florida. Instead it was reduced to a mere pun.
Oh no, he's still trying to do that. It was one of the first things he ordered the Bureau of Prisons to do. He posted about it a few days ago, this time talking about somehow surrounding it with sharks (because of course).
I call it what it is, a Cruelty Centre.
Genocide camp
we can't upvote this enough
It most certainly is one.
Alligator Auschwitz Comcentration Camp?
I was under the impression we were already doing that.
Porque no los dos?
Because they want everyone to use their name for it. Magats love that name. It hides what it really is and lends a celebratory air to the base at the same time as an intimidating effect to potential victims. Remember, they want people to 'self-deport' and this is part of that strategy, in addition to its obvious use. So they're going to make more places like this with more names like this.
Don't help them. Don't go along with what they want. Resist them in every way possible, including not using their terminology--whether it's what they call concentration camps or what they call the bills they pass, like the huge hideous bill signed yesterday.
I disagree. If everyone immediately overnight started referring to it as "Alligator Alcatraz Concentration Camp" and were committed to using that name going forward no matter what, they sure the fuck wouldn't like it anymore.