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orangecrush

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Wed Jun 19, 2019, 05:34 PM Jun 2019

Pelosi blows off AOC 'concentration camp' remarks [View all]


WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed off comments made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez equating border facilities for migrants to “concentration camps” by saying she wasn’t “up to date” on what the New York freshman said.

“These members of Congress, they come to represent their districts and their point of view and they take responsibility for the statements that they make,” Pelosi told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast when asked specifically about AOC’s comments and whether the speaker had talked to her young members about the “power of their words.”

“I’m not up to date with her most recent remarks,” Pelosi added. “I saw them on the news, but I haven’t spoken to her about that.”

AOC first hammered the Trump administration for putting migrants in “concentration camps” during an Instagram live Monday night. A day later, she tweeted a link to an Esquire article from last week that quoted a University of Virginia lecturer saying that concentration camps have a far larger meaning than usually associated with the Nazis during World War II.


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clearing throat, avoid saidsimplesimon Jun 2019 #1
Yes empedocles Jun 2019 #5
Perhaps She Skipped Comment Me. Jun 2019 #11
she commented eom shanny Jun 2019 #104
But IT Wasn't A Real Criticism Me. Jun 2019 #114
American concentration camps Blues Heron Jun 2019 #2
The intention is to hold/detain them to be deported , though. Hortensis Jun 2019 #9
George Takei disagrees. Tipperary Jun 2019 #12
He can disagree all he wants. My husband's family Hortensis Jun 2019 #17
So because they are not gassing them - Tipperary Jun 2019 #18
No, because they're not deliberately murdering them at all, Hortensis Jun 2019 #22
They're concentration camps. triron Jun 2019 #46
They are still concentration camps. Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #95
A friend explained it like this. "When they rounded up women and children behind barbed wire, Autumn Jun 2019 #73
The massive wave of Authoritarianism can influence us all. delisen Jun 2019 #87
Your opinion is as subjective as all others. LanternWaste Jun 2019 #74
My parents lost family members in the Holocaust DavidDvorkin Jun 2019 #98
Never thought I'd see Duers defending concentration camps Blues Heron Jun 2019 #14
Seriously, like what the fuck, people?! Efilroft Sul Jun 2019 #16
No, you don't. Concentration camps were slave labor Hortensis Jun 2019 #20
It's part of our history. The camps, where the Japanese were held, were known as concentration camps Baitball Blogger Jun 2019 #24
Yes, Baitball. :) THOSE are both forms of concentration Hortensis Jun 2019 #28
You sure have a lot of theories about what is and isn't a concentration camp Blues Heron Jun 2019 #32
Whatever. I value the power and critical importance of language. Hortensis Jun 2019 #34
Whatever. Concentration camps it is. triron Jun 2019 #47
You might not want to accuse other here, including me, of twisting language. pangaia Jun 2019 #61
Not in S Africa, California WW2, Yugoslavia civil war, & many other places. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #140
Communism is a red herring and not even analogous. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #141
This. Is. How. It. Starts. Otherize/demonize. Segregate. Deny civil rights & human rights.Imprison. Hekate Jun 2019 #142
Among the names on this wall is 13 of my family who died in a REAL concentration camp Jake Stern Jun 2019 #36
Post removed Post removed Jun 2019 #38
Words have meanings despite your obsession Jake Stern Jun 2019 #39
Concentration camps are not synonymous with death camps. Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #40
AOC invited this by making the comparison Jake Stern Jun 2019 #43
That should be ICE's new slogan "Not as bad as the Nazis so STFU" Blues Heron Jun 2019 #45
You know that's not what he's saying.. Cha Jun 2019 #64
99.999% of the population doesn't know shit about history, or language, or art pangaia Jun 2019 #62
Again, I'm not saying they're the same. Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #72
Oh, bullshit! Events set names. Concentration camps post WWII have a defined meaning. GulfCoast66 Jun 2019 #51
Sorry, we're just not going to agree here. Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #71
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2019 #53
Were they worked to death or executed in gas chambers? Jake Stern Jun 2019 #59
OOppss.. I guess that doesn't count. pangaia Jun 2019 #63
Hey fuck it, they're just brown people. denbot Jun 2019 #67
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2019 #69
BS Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #96
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2019 #52
They are text book concentration camps in context uponit7771 Jun 2019 #56
I disagree that these are not concentration camps. pangaia Jun 2019 #60
The people are concentrated into camps. Gore1FL Jun 2019 #76
+1, they are technically concentration campz uponit7771 Jun 2019 #55
AOC is right. n/t demmiblue Jun 2019 #3
AOC may be 'right' for her district, her career. empedocles Jun 2019 #4
No, she is right on a broader level. They are concentration camps, and it is a moral issue. demmiblue Jun 2019 #6
Some may think AOC right on a narrower level; ethical, moral, legal, ideological, [all fine empedocles Jun 2019 #8
I don't think you save democracy shanny Jun 2019 #106
Damn straight that is what they are. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #10
Yup. nt Tipperary Jun 2019 #13
One would think crimes against humanity would be considered serious by most. Nt Gore1FL Jun 2019 #77
No question from me: there are very powerful moral, legal, ethical, etc. issues that need to be empedocles Jun 2019 #112
No sense getting drawn into a ridiculous argument gratuitous Jun 2019 #7
+1 Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2019 #15
+2 orangecrush Jun 2019 #21
+1000. nt ecstatic Jun 2019 #25
+ struggle4progress Jun 2019 #26
The concentration camps were the machinery of genocide, mass murder. There, people were worked to emmaverybo Jun 2019 #35
Nonsense gratuitous Jun 2019 #37
I can fix that, but I can't fix your sweeping "wrong on facts, wrong on history..." which is no emmaverybo Jun 2019 #41
It seems to me you know of only one example in history of 'concentration camps.' pangaia Jun 2019 #65
I have learned that the definition can be applied to other examples. However, I think Ocasio-Cortez emmaverybo Jun 2019 #68
Not quite Gore1FL Jun 2019 #78
Since folks here have educated me, I now know that "concentration camp" can describe a wider emmaverybo Jun 2019 #86
No you are the one out of step with history Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #99
This...once again we're off arguing semantics about what to call something... Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #42
And, although the keepers are not killing people in them trev Jun 2019 #50
Is it "killing them" to withhold adequate health care? Doremus Jun 2019 #88
Yes, I agree with you, and trev Jun 2019 #89
..👍🏼 uponit7771 Jun 2019 #57
+1000 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #131
Here we go again... budkin Jun 2019 #19
What's outrageous to me is that some in the media have made AOC's comments the outrageous ecstatic Jun 2019 #23
You nailed it. Completely. Sugar Smack Jun 2019 #122
We've lost our way. They are going to concentrate a group of ppl into camps. Millions trump says Kurt V. Jun 2019 #27
What is Ms. Ocasio-Cortez doing to stop this Nuggets Jun 2019 #29
You guys all got the same marching orders didn't you Blues Heron Jun 2019 #48
No, I've pointed out Dems have already Nuggets Jun 2019 #49
+1, uponit7771 Jun 2019 #58
Post removed Post removed Jun 2019 #81
Oh for pete sake she is not minimizing anything.. pangaia Jun 2019 #66
Yes she is Nuggets Jun 2019 #70
Your opinion.. pangaia Jun 2019 #75
She made our concentration camps a public discussion. Gore1FL Jun 2019 #80
These detention centers horrible conditions were Nuggets Jun 2019 #90
What does the Jewish community have to do with the concentration camps we have on our border? Gore1FL Jun 2019 #91
The entire reason AOC used the words was to use Nazi death cano Nuggets Jun 2019 #92
How do you know? Gore1FL Jun 2019 #93
Oh sure. Nuggets Jun 2019 #100
Yes. You are right. She knew she was evoking the holocaust. NT emmaverybo Jun 2019 #102
What would help immigrants in those concentration camps Gore1FL Jun 2019 #117
So you're a mindreader Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #97
Why hasn't she apologized for the Nuggets Jun 2019 #101
So she's not allowed to comment on the situation Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #105
I don't need to be. Nuggets Jun 2019 #119
No it's not? Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #128
Sure I do Nuggets Jun 2019 #129
No you don't Trumpocalypse Jun 2019 #130
You mean like this one? Gore1FL Jun 2019 #118
Neither of those are apologies Nuggets Jun 2019 #120
Apologies? No they are in support of AOC. Just like the dictionary does. Gore1FL Jun 2019 #121
In other words she caused a huge divide using Nuggets Jun 2019 #123
She didn't cause a huge divide. The people who don't own dictionaries did. Gore1FL Jun 2019 #127
You make the classic error confusing death camps with concentration camps. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #136
Post removed Post removed Jun 2019 #139
AOC was right on! Just tellin it like it is. ananda Jun 2019 #30
I couldn't care less WHAT she called these camp Docreed2003 Jun 2019 #31
this shanny Jun 2019 #107
More gaslighting from the right. Thomas Hurt Jun 2019 #33
I am a huge fan of Nancy Pelosi... jcgoldie Jun 2019 #44
Get behind what exactly? nt DURHAM D Jun 2019 #54
Supporting her caucus members for truth telling? Gore1FL Jun 2019 #79
AOC is only useful to Pelosi because she gave her back the majority... WoonTars Jun 2019 #82
AOC is in a Democratic district. DURHAM D Jun 2019 #83
Calling a Concentration Camp a Concentration Camp should not be as controversial as having them. nt Gore1FL Jun 2019 #94
Bingo. shanny Jun 2019 #108
It's alarming that statement needs to be made on a Dem board... WoonTars Jun 2019 #135
So, you read minds? ehrnst Jun 2019 #133
She was part of the wave that energized the base that gave the Dems the majority... WoonTars Jun 2019 #134
One of 40, that's 2.5%. George II Jun 2019 #143
Didn't most of the candidates she endorsed in the primaries lose? lapucelle Jun 2019 #144
"Part of the wave that energized the base" ehrnst Jun 2019 #145
Boy, I've Seen A Lot Of Uninformed Views On This Site Me. Jun 2019 #137
It is 2019. the border camps are total institutions. Children are being delisen Jun 2019 #84
What is a good term? Midnightwalk Jun 2019 #85
+1000 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #132
When AOC is President and Pelosi is still Congresswoman fescuerescue Jun 2019 #103
When Pelosi is Speaker of the House she'll hold the second most powerful elected position in the USA Hekate Jun 2019 #113
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL nini Jun 2019 #116
Hilarious Me. Jun 2019 #138
Misleading. Nancy did not "blow off AOC." She specifically said she had not spoken with AOC... Hekate Jun 2019 #109
I suspect there are some who are intentionally trying to soe division among Democrats. still_one Jun 2019 #124
Why is it so important what we call them? AirmensMom Jun 2019 #110
The New York Post (Trump's favorite rag and the source of the cited headline and story) lapucelle Jun 2019 #111
Nancy Pelosi is a national treasure ! stonecutter357 Jun 2019 #115
This message was self-deleted by its author still_one Jun 2019 #125
LOL. Nancy Pelosi is a Queen underthematrix Jun 2019 #126
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