Is this where I share a photo comparison of Pence’s detention tour that I found on reddit? If not, I’d be happy to post it in more threads.
Pence looks annoyed that he’s there - not an ounce of compassion. He claims to be Christian but I sure don’t see it.
A friend of mine was asking me what I thought of the usage of the term “concentration camp” to describe the places where the Trump administration is holding the south american refugees. He thinks that because the administration’s end goal is not to work the detainees to death, or outright execute them, as the Germans did in the 1940’s, then using the phrase is inflammatory and hyperbolic.
I told him I thought that, strictly speaking, the refugees are being concentrated in one (or several) place and so that makes them concentration camps.
If it matters, his family is jewish and his parents managed to escape Europe but many of his other relatives were not as lucky. I get the feeling that he finds the term mis-applied because the level of misfortune that is being caused by the detention of the refugees does not rise to what happened in Germany last century.
I heard a podcast interview with Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night which goes into the history of concentration camps through the last couple centuries, and there have been a lot, well before the Nazis. To me, it’s clear that what we have now qualifies, and also that what we’re doing now has analogues in Nazi history prior to the horrific death camp phase.
I also understand if a Jewish person has always used the term concentration camp to refer to the special horror of Auschwitz and the like and objects to weakening the term with more general use, but there have long been other uses.
I couldn’t find the podcast, but any book talk by Andrea Pitzer about this would probably cover it.
Here we go. It’s all coming to a head now.
“Know your rights! ICE isn’t allowed to just bust into your house! The rule of law will triumph in America!”
Did you notice that her name is Sofi?
Thanks. I think that writer did too.
The agent turned to the couple’s youngest daughter — 3-year-old Sofia, whom they call Sofi — and asked her to make a choice.
That story is especially horrific, and I wish NPR would be even more specific in calling out these Gestapo tactics. Please, CNN, MSDNC, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., get on this shit, call it what it is, expose it for what it is.
It was definitely not lost on me.
ICE is ramping up on the Nazi purity tests at the border.
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Caution: Moving graphics.
