AOC says Trump is running "concentration camps"

[Arcangl86]

Question for the AOC defensive team here:

Please show one time in the last 75 years the term concentration camp was used and not connected to a death camp.

I don't believe it has ever happened, but feel free to prove me wrong.

"As a member of President Roosevelt's administration, I saw the United States Army give way to mass hysteria over the Japanese...Crowded into cars like cattle, these hapless people were hurried away to hastily constructed and thoroughly inadequate concentration camps, with soldiers with nervous muskets on guard, in the great American desert. We gave the fancy name of 'relocation centers' to these dust bowls, but they were concentration camps nonetheless."

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[GoldenBoy89]

Question for the AOC defensive team here:

Please show one time in the last 75 years the term concentration camp was used and not connected to a death camp.

I don't believe it has ever happened, but feel free to prove me wrong.

You've honestly never heard of the Japanese internment during WWII?

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000[5] people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.
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Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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[hislegacy]

Were those before or after the Nazi atrocities were found and the connection was forever made.

But props for both of your efforts.

 

[hislegacy]

You've honestly never heard of the Japanese internment during WWII?

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000[5] people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.
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Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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You do know anyone can post in wiki. Right?

 

[SummerMadness]

Were those before or after the Nazi atrocities were found and the connection was forever made.

But props for both of your efforts.

The Nazis were not the only people that had concentration camps. Please define what a concentration camp is.

 

[hislegacy]

The Nazis were not the only people that had concentration camps. Please define what a concentration camp is.

Already have. Verbatim right out of the dictionary

 

[SummerMadness]

You do know anyone can post in wiki. Right?

If there is a problem with the Wikipedia entry, please explain what is wrong with the characterization. Your complaint is not an argument.

 

[SummerMadness]

Already have.

Which post?

EDIT: I see now. You should look up the word "sometimes" before you use bold typeface.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Were those before or after the Nazi atrocities were found and the connection was forever made.

But props for both of your efforts.

Pretty sure the Wikipedia article came after.

 

[Arcangl86]

Were those before or after the Nazi atrocities were found and the connection was forever made.

But props for both of your efforts.

My quote was from 1946.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

You do know anyone can post in wiki. Right?

Right.

What part of the article do you dispute? That we had them in concentration camps or that they are called concentration camps?

 

[SummerMadness]

The plain definition of concentration camp: "a place where large numbers of people are detained or confined under armed guard."

George Takei‏: "I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again."

 

[hislegacy]

It amazes me the lengths people go to, to defend an inflamatory statement made to be inflamatory, not hyperbole that is egregious and offensive, not to Trump supporters, but to holocaust survivors and their families.

She should come with a disclaimer:

Anything I say cannot be disputed by anyone. Including leadership in my own party.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

It amazes me the lengths people go to, to defend an inflamatory statement made to be inflamatory, not hyperbole that is egregious and offensive, not to Trump supporters, but to holocaust survivors and their families.

She should come with a disclaimer:

Anything I say cannot be disputed by anyone. Including leadership in my own party.

If it's a factual statement how can anyone dispute it? We see now by the dictionary definition and even our own use of the word to describe our own concentration camps that her statements need no defense.

End the concentration camps and you won't have to hear about it.

 

[variant]

You do know anyone can post in wiki. Right?

You don't believe in the Japanese internment?

No, we didn't end up killing the Japanese, but we did put them in concentration camps.

 

[variant]

If it's a factual statement how can anyone dispute it? We see now by the dictionary definition and even our own use of the word to describe our own concentration camps that her statements need no defense.

End the concentration camps and you won't have to hear about it.

It's a factual statement that they are disputing because the most prominent concentration camp was Auschwitz.

 

[hislegacy]

If it's a factual statement how can anyone dispute it? We see now by the dictionary definition and even our own use of the word to describe our own concentration camps that her statements need no defense.

End the concentration camps and you won't have to hear about it.

It’s only factual if you use only half of the definition.

This proves you can’t teach empathy.

Politics take precedence over empathy for the hundreds of thousands of customs still alive today who are greatly offended by it.

It is a sad statement on today’s culture.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

It's a factual statement that they are disputing because the most prominent concentration camp was Auschwitz.

I get that people don't like the association with Nazi Germany and I'll be the first to point out that the Trump administration or its handling of illegals and asylum seekers is nowhere near the level of depravity and outright evil we see in the Third Reich, nor could it ever be. We simply would not allow that here but that doesn't change the fact that we have people being interned and concentrated in camps in less-than-humane conditions.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

It’s only factual if you use only half of the definition.

What's the other half?

This proves you can’t teach empathy.

Politics take precedence over empathy for the hundreds of thousands of customs still alive today who are greatly offended by it.

It is a sad statement on today’s culture.

Oh. Should we refrain from using certain words because of how they might make others feel?

How politically correct of you.

 

[variant]

I get that people don't like the association with Nazi Germany and I'll be the first to point out that the Trump administration or its handling of illegals and asylum seekers is nowhere near the level of depravity and outright evil we see in the Third Reich, nor could it ever be. We simply would not allow that here but that doesn't change the fact that we have people being interned and concentrated in camps in less-than-humane conditions.

They absolutely are concentration camps.

The poor treatment of those inside the camps is also to be admonished.

The association with Natzi's should be avoided though, unless the trump administration starts executing people.

We're up to terrorizing small children though so it's not a difficult stretch in my opinion.