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Fascism is here.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/trump-mass-deportation-immigrant-camps
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3752956
Fascism is here.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/22/trump-mass-deportation-immigrant-camps
It’s pretty interesting how “concentration camp” used to just mean “a camp where people were grouped together”. It wasn’t necessarily pleasant, but in many cases it was effectively a relatively nice prison. Then, it became a euphemism for an extermination camp. The Nazis pretended they were just grouping people together in a camp, when in reality the aim was to kill everyone there. That euphemism tainted the original meaning, so now when people hear “concentration camp” they think of the Nazi extermination camps.
Technically, Guantanamo Bay probably qualifies as a concentration camp, but I bet they are very careful not to ever use that term.
Where are you getting your history from? Because I imagine the Cubans and Boers would disagree, and those are two of the earliest, if not the first uses of what we consider to be concentration camps.
They havs always used to imprison civilian non-combatants, and the only benchmark by which some were simply “not very pleasant”, is if you compare every other example to the worst examples, which were the Nazi concentration camps.