(06-20-2019, 09:34 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-19-2019, 09:42 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Yep, she's dumb. And people are still going to overwhelmingly re-elect her. Pathetic.

"Concentration camp" simply refers to places quickly built to remove civilians from the battlefield, usually to prevent the civilians from harboring guerilla fighters.

There have been concentration camps all over the world at many different times.  Not just in Nazi Germany.  Sometimes the civilians go willingly.  Usually they are not killed, but more often than not they don't receive adequate food or medical care.

The camps we have at the border do have some of the features of concentration camps, but we shouldn't call them that unless we think that some sort of war is taking place at the border. 

AOC is not trying to compare the US to Nazis. She is more likely saying that our country is committing an act of War by building and filling these camps.  

I don't think she's correct, regardless.
These people's original homes were in another country, and our military isn't trying to conquer that country.  

What we did to Japanese-Americans in the 1940s was a concentration camp.
This is not.

con·cen·tra·tion camp
/ˌkänsənˈtrāSHən ˈˌkamp/
noun
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. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.

The facilities used to detain illegal aliens are not concentration camps.  They are a temporary place to hold fugitives.

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