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MadDAsHell

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9. Today's kids will have no idea what concentration camps actually were.
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 09:07 AM
Oct 2018

Border detention and separation of immigrant families are awful, and I realize there’s political power in calling them “concentration camps,” but seriously, it’s an insult to Holocaust survivors and will totally water down to today’s youth what a concentration camp actually was. Why are we doing that?

Not dissimilar to the trend over the last 20 years of comparing political opponents to Hitler. Kids being raised today are going to think “Hitler” simply means a political opponent: they’ll have no sense that Hitler means someone who was willingly responsible for the torture and death of tens of millions.

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