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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi blows off AOC 'concentration camp' remarks [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)camps. People sent there were stripped of all property and rights. The only way out was to die, and inmates were systematically starved, abused, and worked to death to make room for more. Some were used for medical experimentation.
These current U.S. camps are where people who are to be deported to freedom are detained until shipped off.
If you call these concentration camps and 5 years from now they're filled with liberal ministers, politicians, intellectuals and journalists, who are set to slave labor and starved and abused until they die, what will THOSE be called? The same thing? And how will people believe is happening there if they already "know" they're basically way-station prisons and that few die in them? And that would be what the Republicans insisted was the case.
Language matters, and the accuracy aand power of words need to be protected. The biggest problem right now is loss of credibility through making irresponsibly inaccurate and sensationalist claims to people who know the truth.
Just imagine: Communism is a form of socialism. What would you think of people claiming Bernie Sanders' followers were all commies who believed in the need for forced reeducation, forced labor camps, and mass murder? You'd know it wasn't even close to being true, and the words would have no power to move you.