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by teakettle42 1497 days ago
Please go physically visit Auschwitz, tour the grounds and museum exhibits illustrating the genuine horrors perpetuated there, and then see if your offensively ignorant misuse of the term "concentration camp" still seems appropriate to you.

If you can't visit in person, then start here: http://www.auschwitz.org/en/gallery/exhibits/evidence-of-cri...
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ixtli 1497 days ago
I am a Jew and I have studied this and visited camps. I just visited the site of one in France. It is quite clear that needing to separate what has happened to children and families on the southern border from that which happened to, say, the Roma during the Reich is suspicious. No one will be held accountable.

History will eventually regard the imperialist behavior of the US quite negatively. This is no comparison to Hitler’s Germany but it’s intellectually dishonest to ignore that they designed the racial Nuremberg laws on Jim Crow America. Racism, segregation, and the like are an intrinsic part of American history and one of its exports.

We built concentration camps for Japanese during the war and nothing came of that either.

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teakettle42 1496 days ago
> History will eventually regard the imperialist behavior of the US quite negatively.

What exactly is imperialist about border and immigration enforcement within the United States?

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ixtli 1496 days ago
The border enforcement is not in and of itself imperialist. This is a bad faith engagement with what I think is a pretty clear argument.

Our border enforcement is a small piece of a much larger program of imperialism. We overthrow and destabilize central and South American governments which are not sufficiently pliant client states. Then we make a show of rejecting groups fleeing those conditions even though the vast majority of undocumented immigration does not happen via border crossing.

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hedora 1497 days ago
The current ubiquity of child abuse in the US ICE camps is shocking. However, if the bar is “not as bad as Hitler while he was losing the war”, then I agree there’s a long way to fall.

Heck, ICE doctors haven’t been caught performing forced hysterectomies for almost two years:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/us/ice-hysterectomy-forced-st...

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teakettle42 1497 days ago
“Caught” is not a synonym for “unsupported anonymous allegations by immigration activists”.

It’s insulting, naive, and simply wrong to suggest an equivalence to our enforcement of immigration law on people voluntarily emigrating to the United States.

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