Concentration Camps Debate
The cluster centers on debates over whether US migrant detention centers and Chinese Uyghur camps qualify as 'concentration camps,' discussing the term's historical definition, hyperbolic usage, and comparisons to Nazi internment camps.
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The country you are simping runs literal concentration camps.
Your choice of language by saying "concentration camps" is unproductively hyperbolic and reminiscent of Nazis killing Jews in WW2. People found to have been here illegally are being kept in detention centers until deportation or trial. Nobody is getting gassed or burned in ovens.
Yes, this is the same as putting people in concentration campsUnbelievable…
The US has concentration camps? Do tell.
You mean concentration camps? like... those ones the US has in the south states?
That’s what a concentration camp is though. It’s not hyperbole it’s literally the idea of them.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment
Why is it being called a 'concentrantion camp'? Can someone explain that to me?
"Concentration camp" isn't Nazi terminology. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment):> The term concentration camp originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces detained Cuban civilians in camps in order to more easily combat guerrilla forces. Over the following decades the British during the Second Boer War and the Ameri
That's a terribly curated headline for clickbait.It's a list of concentration and internment camps. I'm not sure how it's much different than any juvie jail throughout the US, but it's just a political move that happens to fit with a certain narrative.
The term "concentration camp" has an extremely negative connotation though due to Nazi Germany. China isn't gassing and cremating people. They are helping minorities integrate into Chinese society via ethically questionable means.