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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi blows off AOC 'concentration camp' remarks [View all]still_one
(92,212 posts)124. I suspect there are some who are intentionally trying to soe division among Democrats.
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A friend explained it like this. "When they rounded up women and children behind barbed wire,
Autumn
Jun 2019
#73
It's part of our history. The camps, where the Japanese were held, were known as concentration camps
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2019
#24
You sure have a lot of theories about what is and isn't a concentration camp
Blues Heron
Jun 2019
#32
Not in S Africa, California WW2, Yugoslavia civil war, & many other places. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#140
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
Oh, bullshit! Events set names. Concentration camps post WWII have a defined meaning.
GulfCoast66
Jun 2019
#51
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
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
The concentration camps were the machinery of genocide, mass murder. There, people were worked to
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#35
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
Since folks here have educated me, I now know that "concentration camp" can describe a wider
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#86
This...once again we're off arguing semantics about what to call something...
Wounded Bear
Jun 2019
#42
What's outrageous to me is that some in the media have made AOC's comments the outrageous
ecstatic
Jun 2019
#23
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 does the Jewish community have to do with the concentration camps we have on our border?
Gore1FL
Jun 2019
#91
You make the classic error confusing death camps with concentration camps.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#136
Calling a Concentration Camp a Concentration Camp should not be as controversial as having them. nt
Gore1FL
Jun 2019
#94
She was part of the wave that energized the base that gave the Dems the majority...
WoonTars
Jun 2019
#134
When Pelosi is Speaker of the House she'll hold the second most powerful elected position in the USA
Hekate
Jun 2019
#113
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
The New York Post (Trump's favorite rag and the source of the cited headline and story)
lapucelle
Jun 2019
#111