When they get us to argue about what we call the camps we are locking up babies in

[Recursion]

Then they have a few days where they aren't defending locking up babies. That's intentional. They know what they're doing.

Focus.

The problem is that we are locking up babies. The problem is not what we call the camps we are putting them in.

[Blues Heron]

1. That's why so many trolls were on here slamming the use of the term "concentration camps"

[Recursion]

3. Bingo (nt)

[C_U_L8R]

2. Branding.

Trump Camps. Done.

[bdamomma]

9. Trump/Miller

Concentration Camps.

Splitting up and ripping children from their parents is abhorrent and should have never been done.

This is not normal.

[uponit7771]

4. A camp is where people send their kids a concentration camp isn't.

[BarbD]

5. You are absolutely correct.

And, we so easily get side-tracked into being on the defensive apologizing.

You are right. Focus!

[Hekate]

7. No one, and I mean NO ONE, should apologize for calling these what they are: concentration camps

Never. See what you see and know what you know.

[csziggy]

6. When I called my Republican Senators I said I don't care what they call them

Concentration camps, internment camps, holding facilities, or dog pounds - it doesn't matter. I told them that what matters is that these refugee's rights are being violated and the people and especially the children are not being treated the way they should be in this country.

I also refuse to call the people "illegals" - they are refugees trying to find a safe place to live and they are being treated like shit.

[bdamomma]

8. whose to say

they won't do it to us???

tRump is throwing out his red meat to say Democrats are going to ruin their lives.

[Hekate]

10. Homeland Nazis. Homeland Dog Pounds for Human Children. Homeland Concentration Camps.

Homeland White Nationalist Indefensible Baby-Torture.

You can probably tell I hate the term Homeland, and always have. It's so very blood-and-soil.

[lunatica]

13. It's so reminiscent of Fatherland Germany.

I’ve always hated it too. The Bush administration labeled everything to sound like Hitler’s Germany. Ugh!

[Karadeniz]

11. Excellent point!

[lunatica]

12. The term concentration camp is part of history now

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Words are powerful things.

Just saying concentration camps on our border will automatically make people picture the children. It’s now part of our national (and international) narrative.

Just like saying 99% or 1% makes us understand the unfair distribution of wealth.

Just like Black Lives Matter encompasses systemic racism, or #MeToo is about rape, or MAGA is about Trump’s policies and the specific people who support him.

[Nitram]

14. I disagree. I think we need to make the label stick, and keep it in the forefront of every

discussion. The term "concentration camp" is loaded, and it conveys the full horror of what this administration is doing to people on our southern border. We don't need to "argue" - we just need to rub their faces in the fact that they are committing crimes against humanity.