Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out U.S. ‘Concentration Camps’
the term concentration camps should in my opinion be reserved for policies by governments that aim to both imprison and kill entire population groups based on for instance who they pray to.
the example in history of how the Jews were "treated" by the Germans in WW2, is too important to let be diluted.
either come up with a new term, or make it clear, through persistent hard work if necessary, that "border detention camps" can have very grave things wrong with them as well, as they clearly have today in the US.
i think the border crisis, border detention crisis (#bdc), needs to be addressed with elements from both Democratic and Republican applied into a real solution.
making it clear that attempts to immigrate into the US are futile, by always shipping people back, making this well known in the countries of origin of the asylum seekers through advertisement ran in their local language, and keeping a persistent eye on living conditions in those countries of origin
, is needed as well.
of course, it'll be hard preventing the US from being abused to take care of stability problems in countries of origin for asylum seekers.
but they're all necessary steps if the US wants to prevent being accused later, and possibly suffering economic and military/strategic losses due to poor reputation, of being in control of an immigration system that basically tortures people based on false promises.
the Chinese government faces the same problem in "dealing" with the Chinese muslim populations, and those of other minorities that can be identified as a group, such as Falun Gong.
once the world figures out that by avoiding comparisons to worse horrors found earlier on the human timeline,
it becomes possible to see where and how pressure can be applied to governments through persistent naming and shaming. naming with the name a government gave to their own inhumane policies, not some label found earlier in human history.
normally i avoid playing language police like i'd avoid the plague,
but this is different.
see, 'concentration camp', refers to a truly horrible plan with global proportions.
if the germans and their allies had won WW2, we'd be living in a world with several religions and population groups wiped out entirely or nearly entirely.
even more than just the nutters, gipsies, and Jews.
and the same goes for any other label that people would think have the greatest weight.
people know this instinctively or consciously, and so the public's attention is refocussed onto that '
is it or aint it' question every time such comparisons are used in public debate.
