SAY THE WORDS: AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP
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We are sending people there and they are not coming back.

By all criteria, this a concentration camp. Not “concentration camp” as rhetorical inflation, or emotionally manipulative shorthand, or edgy metaphor—but as in: literally.

As in: detention without trial, state control, inhumane living conditions, forced labor, dehumanization, brutal violence, isolation from accountability, psychological torture, and—by every available logical extension—murder.

That last one we can’t yet verify in the strict evidentiary sense, but the circumstances suggest it like smoke suggests fire, and they are already trying to hide their actions and deny what is occurring.

  • then_three_more@lemmy.world
    852·
    1 day ago

    It is not new though, it started with Guantanamo concentration camp for Taliban fighters.

    It is not new though, it started with 10 concentrations camps during World War 2 for Japanese Americans.

    • brendansimms@lemmy.world
      66·
      1 day ago

      It is not new though, it started with Guantanamo concentration camp for Taliban fighters.

      It is not new though, it started with 10 concentrations camps during World War 2 for Japanese Americans.

      It is not new though, it started with concentration camps for the extermination and removal of the Native Americans

        • Suite404@lemmy.world
          4·
          5 hours ago

          I’ve always thought it was hypocritical of Americans to be calling Nazis the worst. We literally enslaved a group of people for hundreds of years, bred and slaughtered them at our whim. Had concentration camps, and more. We’re not better, and probably worse. We just had good propaganda.

          • LePoisson@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 hours ago

            Eh, I wouldn’t say Americans reached the level of industrialized genocide Nazi Germany achieved but we definitely had and still have plenty of blood on our hands.

            • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I’m not sure I’d agree, though maybe you’re correct because it wasn’t industrial. We put bounties on bison skulls though to encourage them being slaughtered because we new native populations relied on them, for example. It was brutal and systematic. Sure, we didn’t use industrial means to actually kill them, but I don’t think that makes it better or worse, only different.

    • insufferableninja@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      42·
      1 day ago

      In Die Hard, when Hans is describing Takagi, he says “interned at Manzanar 1942-43”. 9 year old imsufferableninja thought he was talking about an internship at a prestigious company called Manzanar. 25 year old imsufferableninja finally figured it out. They did not teach about the US’s concentration camps at my schools, for some reason…