George Taki:.yes, they are concentration camps. I was in 2 of them in WW2.

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51. Why not include the other part?

Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between concentration camps (described in this article) and extermination camps, which were established by Nazi Germany for the industrial-scale mass murder of Jews in the ghettos by way of gas chambers.

And of course you know the term dates from 1897, has been used widely prior to the holocaust and the use in Germany started in 1933.

If I wanted to be as one sided I would say that clearly the refusal to call them concentration camps is to downplay the severity of what is happening.

Your argument is not logical. Some rectangles are squares. Some things that aren’t squares are still rectangles.

The policy of separation is to intimidate migrants by brutalizing them. It also dehumanizes them.

The right answer to anyone saying these camps are not as bad as anything the Nazis did is “when that become the criteria for what is acceptable”.

I’m not sure what the best tem is, but I reject the suggested replacements because they don’t have negative enough connotations. The part you excerpted includes the word debate.