AOC says Trump is running "concentration camps"

Aren't these the same Obama used?

U.S. to open third military base to illegal child immigrants - Reuters

Is there something wrong with using tents like all the homeless American citizens use ?

Are they being forced to stay there, can they not go back to their home and country.

Ridiculous and unfounded.

DidYouSaySomething said:

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It's important to understand the difference between an internment camp (or concentration camp) and a death camp.

From the lead of the wikipedia article on internment:

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects".

Internment - Wikipedia

Some aspects of the migrant detention camps do seem to fit the internment camp definition.

DidYouSaySomething said:

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Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, has a more global definition. There have been concentration camps in France, South Africa, Cuba, the Soviet Union, and—with Japanese internment—the United States. In fact, she contends we are operating such a system right now in response to a very real spike in arrivals at our southern border.

“We have what I would call a concentration camp system,” Pitzer says, “and the definition of that in my book is, mass detention of civilians without trial.”

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Concentration Camps Expert Andrea Pitzer: The Trump Administration Is Running Camps at the Southern Border

Desperate and absolutely lame.
Seriously.

lol @ TrumpFans getting mad over hyperbole

iluvatar5150 said:

lol @ TrumpFans getting mad over hyperbole

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AOC said, "This is not hyperbole." June 18, 2019 Twitter

I don't like this application of that word. I also think everyone in North America needs to visit Dachau or Auschwitz.

The actual 2 minute video instead of 15 minutes of spurging from a man who badly needs better hygiene
Ocasio-Cortez: "Fascist Presidency" Is Running "Concentration Camps" On The Southern Border

I like how she's literally using Trump's tactics against him.

Regardless of terminology, the fact that Americans cheer on keeping people in cages, applaud family separation, and demonize people seeking asylum, suggests they probably need to reflect a little more. Cheering on misery is not a good look, and history shows you are usually with the wrong crowd. I have yet to see people rounded up and put into camps, detention centers or whatever euphemism for targeting an ethnic group, and the people supporting that not being ultimately categorized as evil in history.

Don't be this woman:

SummerMadness said:

Don't be this woman:

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Reminds me of the more current nuts doing the same to this woman

AOC says Trump is running "concentration camps"

I'm curious as to what her opinion is of the conditions the homeless live under in LA?

Below is a well written editorial on the situation at our southern border. I hope those who are making light of the situation will take the time to read it.

Editorial: Don't look away from concentration camps at the border

We are "connected to each other in Christ... Their struggle is our struggle. Their joy is our joy. Their babies are our babies. Their families are our families," -- Nichole Flores, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia.

WherevertheWindblows said:

Reminds me of the more current nuts doing the same to this woman

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This comparison is akin to aoc concentration camp imho.

It used to be that asylees would come into our country and ask for asylum and then go to be with relatives or friends already here, while awaiting for their case to be adjudicated.
This “catch & release” policy was nixed by the current Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, so, now ALL asylees are sent to detention camps, instead of being “at large”.

WherevertheWindblows said:

Reminds me of the more current nuts doing the same to this woman

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Gotta love right-wing tokenism and the people like Owens who embrace it. Considering this woman has minimized slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, inaccurate pictures like this are slap in the face to the African Americans who really sacrificed their lives for civil rights in the US.

SummerMadness said:

Gotta love right-wing tokenism and the people like Owens who embrace it. Considering this woman has minimized slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, inaccurate pictures like this are slap in the face to the African Americans who really sacrificed their lives for civil rights in the US.

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I don't think so at all, I would encourage folks to tune into some of her talks and see for themselves.

WherevertheWindblows said:

I don't think so at all, I would encourage folks to tune into some of her talks and see for themselves.

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When a person suggests that a time when more than 50% of African Americans living in poverty with de jure segregation was better than the current landscape, they are patently ignorant and haphazardly foolish at best. She doesn't argue facts, she echoes racist talking points that appeal to her audience under the guise that a black voice saying it means she is somehow authentic or "deep." She is the personification of Bamboozled.