(06-20-2019, 06:48 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(06-20-2019, 02:47 PM)mikesez Wrote: But the Japanese internment camps were concentration camps.

We are talking a different time and a different era.  The internment camps were for a whole different purpose and were not in fact "concentration camps" even though that's what they are called.  Considering the time (1941-1942) after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the fact that the Japanese were so brutal led to the knee jerk reaction that led to their creation.  Do I agree with them?  No.  However considering the time and the trauma that the U.S. suffered at that time I can understand why it happened.

The places that are in place today are NOT concentration camps.  They are temporary facilities to place fugitives that are NOT citizens but have broken the law.  NEWS FLASH - if you break the law you are going to be locked up and the place where you are locked up is not going to be comfortable.

Face it.  AOC is trying to portray President Trump as a "Nazi" and is trying to equate what actually is a concentration camp with temporary facilities put up to house and hold CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS.

AOC and her ilk is pretty much the "gift that keeps on giving" and will ensure another 4 years of President Trump.

You not liking the definition of "concentration camp" doesn't change that definition. You'll never hear me refer to them as "concentration camps" because the connotation those words carry is very different from the reality of the situation, but you've only got Merriam and Webster to blame for writing a definition that technically applies.

I say that with almost as huge a grain of salt as you'll take it with.

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