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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi blows off AOC 'concentration camp' remarks [View all]Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)She wasn't talking about the British prisoner camps during the Boer War, nor deportation camps for Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. She was alluding to the camps run by the Third Reich (which is what 99.999% of folks think about when someone mentions 'concentration camp)' to critique ICE detention facilities.
To me, somebody who lost family in those camps, that is offensive as hell. Nobody in those ICE detention centers faces anywhere near the same risk that an inmate in a German camp did. They don't have to live with dragging the corpse of a fellow camp inmate to count each morning and evening so they won't be beaten or killed of the count is off. They don't have to fear being selected with a dozen others for tortuous public execution in retaliation for an inmate escaping.
That's like comparing being held in the county lockup with being in a Soviet GULAG.