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By all criteria, this a concentration camp. Not “concentration camp” as rhetorical inflation, or emotionally manipulative shorthand, or edgy metaphor—but as in: literally.

As in: detention without trial, state control, inhumane living conditions, forced labor, dehumanization, brutal violence, isolation from accountability, psychological torture, and—by every available logical extension—murder.

That last one we can’t yet verify in the strict evidentiary sense, but the circumstances suggest it like smoke suggests fire, and they are already trying to hide their actions and deny what is occurring.

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[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hey! You skipped the civil war concentration camps on both sides, how dare you.

[–] suite403@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've always thought it was hypocritical of Americans to be calling Nazis the worst. We literally enslaved a group of people for hundreds of years, bred and slaughtered them at our whim. Had concentration camps, and more. We're not better, and probably worse. We just had good propaganda.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I wouldn't say Americans reached the level of industrialized genocide Nazi Germany achieved but we definitely had and still have plenty of blood on our hands.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure I'd agree, though maybe you're correct because it wasn't industrial. We put bounties on bison skulls though to encourage them being slaughtered because we new native populations relied on them, for example. It was brutal and systematic. Sure, we didn't use industrial means to actually kill them, but I don't think that makes it better or worse, only different.