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atreides1

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22. I respectfully disagree with you

Mon Jun 24, 2019, 11:17 AM

Jun 2019

Internment Camps: a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.

Concentration Camps: a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

Those children are not enemy aliens, POWs, or political prisoners...they are members of a persecuted minority who have been deliberately imprisoned in a small area with inadequate facilities!

On the bright side they are not going to be used as forced labor nor are they awaiting mass execution...so far!!!

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Everyone please keep calling them concentration camps. Not only is it true, [View all] ProfessorPlum Jun 2019 OP

K & r! obamanut2012 Jun 2019 #1

And death camps duforsure Jun 2019 #2

C'mon. "Concentration Camp" has a definition, but "death camp" has... TreasonousBastard Jun 2019 #3

they just won't make much if any effort to keep them alive ProfessorPlum Jun 2019 #4

Doesn't everyone see what Trump and Miller and Hannity, etc, are doing? DemocracyMouse Jun 2019 #11

I would love to bdamomma Jun 2019 #39

Hey it's just branding, remember the ACA "death panels"? bigbrother05 Jun 2019 #17

That is the point-- people are not sent there to die, but... TreasonousBastard Jun 2019 #20

Only Trump can 'prove' that as true or not..and more and more, I would bet his internal monolouge, Volaris Jun 2019 #52

i'm looking for a bit more than just a grammatical concession.... unblock Jun 2019 #5

I agree - it only highlights that they won't ever stop using a term _incorrectly_ ProfessorPlum Jun 2019 #8

Yeah, that silly "democrat party" thing pales in comparison to children in concentration camps sop Jun 2019 #18

I think it doesn't , actually... Volaris Jun 2019 #55

i see your point, but disagree as to magnitude. unblock Jun 2019 #60

I agree with you , that the magnitude is different. Volaris Jun 2019 #61

I have been using that name on social media awesomerwb1 Jun 2019 #6

Agreed, some well deserved payback... Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #7

Perhaps they should stop saying "death tax" when they talk about inheritance taxes, sop Jun 2019 #21

I just sent a letter to the editor of the local paper CanonRay Jun 2019 #9

Whilst I tend to brook no truck with people who attacked AOC for her use of concentration camps (as Celerity Jun 2019 #10

Internment Camps were Concentration Camps Saviolo Jun 2019 #19

that is a valid point as well Celerity Jun 2019 #24

I respectfully disagree with you atreides1 Jun 2019 #22

I am fine with the use of concentration camps to describe them, I just personally prefer other Celerity Jun 2019 #23

Oh, I would submit to you that those kids are absolutely political prisoners... Volaris Jun 2019 #56

Those internment camps WERE concentration camps obamanut2012 Jun 2019 #33

Trump camps works for me. bluedigger Jun 2019 #12

TRUMP CONCENTRATION CAMPS. (no text follows) sprinkleeninow Jun 2019 #51

Some of our POTUS nominees need to be informed of this. ehrnst Jun 2019 #13

Sorry to post this twice, but I'm sick to my stomach about the cruelty inflicted on those children DemocracyMouse Jun 2019 #14

I'm pretty sure it meets the United Nations definition of torture Tanuki Jun 2019 #49

K & R malaise Jun 2019 #15

They Are Concentration Camps McKim Jun 2019 #16

The debate about what to call these camps PatSeg Jun 2019 #25

THIS ++++100000000++++++ csziggy Jun 2019 #28

You're welcome PatSeg Jun 2019 #42

I called my Rep and Senators and told them I don't care what they call them csziggy Jun 2019 #43

Oh my PatSeg Jun 2019 #44

Rubio just has a phone message with a place to record your message csziggy Jun 2019 #45

I agree PatSeg Jun 2019 #50

Good point. I also think concentration camps is appropriate. Because that's what they are. Liberal In Texas Jun 2019 #31

that's exactly what I'm saying ProfessorPlum Jun 2019 #32

No, you make us look like crackpots morons! 4139 Jun 2019 #26

Even the Truman Library calls the Japanese-American camps "concentration camps." pnwmom Jun 2019 #29

couldn't disagree more ProfessorPlum Jun 2019 #30

THEY ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS obamanut2012 Jun 2019 #34

No they are not and you are making all of us look bad. 4139 Jun 2019 #35

You are flaunting your ignorance ProfessorPlum Jun 2019 #36

Please don't sanitize evil actions with softer words. They're TECHNICALLY concentration camps uponit7771 Jun 2019 #48

To be accurate, they are concentration camps for children. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2019 #54

+1 uponit7771 Jun 2019 #62

"Concentration Camps" existed years before the Nazi Holocaust sop Jun 2019 #64

They are text book concentration camps in context uponit7771 Jun 2019 #47

Not only that, UN should invade USA and imprison those committing the crimes AND those Eliot Rosewater Jun 2019 #27

Wait...you want to jail 45 million Americans? tritsofme Jun 2019 #38

Accessories to crimes go to jail too Eliot Rosewater Jun 2019 #65

I guess the right doesn't have a monopoly on authoritarian delusions... tritsofme Jun 2019 #66

I wish the bdamomma Jun 2019 #40

Pls stick with internment or detention camps. I've heard it reported... brush Jun 2019 #37

I thought that feeling would be universal. It isn't. One of my Jewish American groups not offended. emmaverybo Jun 2019 #58

These aren't Death Camps (yet). And I do not want them to become that . Volaris Jun 2019 #59

They love making Nazi comparisons, until people start calling them Nazis. Initech Jun 2019 #41

The camps clearly qualify as concentration camps Gothmog Jun 2019 #46

Watch Lawrence bdamomma Jun 2019 #53

I Said This A Year Ago: You HAVE To Put Trump's Name On Them ChoppinBroccoli Jun 2019 #57

I think Concentration Camp is Accurate delisen Jun 2019 #63