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Lawmaker says Alligator Alcatraz is an ‘internment camp’ after joint GOP-Dem visit
(www.independent.co.uk)
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STOP CALLING IT ALCATRAZ.
Alcatraz was for criminals who were found guilty in a trial.
This is AUSCHWITZ
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, every time I hear potential terrible plans on social media, it seems like they take it as a guide.
"Now that we're here, what should we do?" "Gee, I don't know Tom. Let's see what the liberals on Reddit are crying about and do that."
No. This is Dachau. They're not yet at the stage where they operate gas chambers. They'll get there soon enough, though.
Auschwitz did not start as an extermination camp, either.
Auschwitz was an extermination camp, not a concentration camp. This is more like Dachau. Pretty accurately like Dachau I'd even say.
Look, if you put people in "concentration camps" until they die, wouldn't that be an extermination camp, even if you aren't doing anything to accelerate their deaths?
No, because words have meaning. People also died in the original concentration camps - they were still distinct from the extermination camps.
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Yeah let's weaken our political messaging for the camp where acting forces want to feed the latino population to alligators in the name of pedantry! Fuck the fact that most Americans would probably guess Dachau is a cheese or something, and that Auschwitz is certainly the most recognizable of the camps taught from the holocaust, we want to be 5% more correct!
I mean. They built it in the middle of a swamp. I wouldn't be surprised if the next time that area gets a particularly heavy rain it'll morph into an extermination camp in a matter of hours.
But the alliteration....
I nominate "Donalds Dachau". Would that work for you?