Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
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This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
  • pyre@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 months ago

    francesca fiorentini called it Alligator Auschwitz, which i like because it keeps the alliteration while conveying the concentration camp idea.

    edit: i heard it from her first but many leftists seem to be calling it that; my bad.

    • 4grams@lemmy.world
      38·
      2 months ago

      I’m convinced this place is designed to kill people. I mean, they defunded noaa, cancelled FEMA, and built a hastily constructed, non-storm rated facility and dropped it in hurricane alley. It’s already flooded once.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          61·
          2 months ago

          It’s amazing to me that they have no problem blaming the gays for hurricanes, yet it never goes the other way… I mean, if you’re someone who looks for “signs” in the weather, it doesn’t get any more obvious than what happened in Texas.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      People died in concentration camps too - they are still distinct from death camps. There may be death camps in the near future, but there aren’t yet.

      Concentration camps are bad enough as is, and calling facilities like Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps has the advantage that it’s the truth - they check all the boxes in the concentration camp definition checklist. If you make stuff up for dramatic effect your argument is no longer factually correct - which means it can be disputed using facts.

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    And like the Germans in WW2, the Americans are also starving and beating these people, but they’ve outsourced that shit to nations like El Salvador to obscure the atrocities.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    355·
    2 months ago

    I don’t actually want to say this but the USA was founded on genocide. It literally killed the native americans to take their land, same as hitler attempted to do with the polish people.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    714·
    2 months ago

    THEY’RE SELLING MERCHANDISE LIKE IT’S A GODDAMN AMUSEMENT PARK! HUMANITY HAS FAILED! WE ARE A FAILED SPECIES AND WILL PROBABLY GO EXTINCT FROM THE SELFISHNESS AND GREED OF A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE POPULATION

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    45·
    2 months ago

    AND IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING THE OPENING OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMP CNN WAS FOCUSING MOST OF ITS ATTENTION ON THE TRIAL OF FUCKING P DIDDY

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      IKR? Puff Daddy is the kind of artist I generally could care less about since forever, and yet, it’s nearly impossible to escape knowing some amount of detail about his propensity for lube or that NazYe showed up to his trial.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Unfortunately, the Nazis were only removed from power by an external military force much greater than them. Even after the war was utterly lost and the Allies were closing in on all sides and literally turning their cities into heaps of rubble, the Nazis never lost their chokehold on Germany. What external power is coming to remove Trump and his cronies?

    • leadore@lemmy.world
      131·
      2 months ago

      Because they want everyone to use their name for it. Magats love that name. It hides what it really is and lends a celebratory air to the base at the same time as an intimidating effect to potential victims. Remember, they want people to ‘self-deport’ and this is part of that strategy, in addition to its obvious use. So they’re going to make more places like this with more names like this.

      Don’t help them. Don’t go along with what they want. Resist them in every way possible, including not using their terminology–whether it’s what they call concentration camps or what they call the bills they pass, like the huge hideous bill signed yesterday.

      • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
        71·
        2 months ago

        I disagree. If everyone immediately overnight started referring to it as “Alligator Alcatraz Concentration Camp” and were committed to using that name going forward no matter what, they sure the fuck wouldn’t like it anymore.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    2 months ago

    Wasn’t “concentration camp” a euphemism, too?

    I mean, most people know people are not doing any “camping” at such a place, but…still.

    • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      No.

      Camp means encampment. Which refers to temporary or light shelter, usually for a group. And the term “concentration camp” is from the 1800s.

      • SpaceShort@feddit.uk
        2·
        2 months ago

        Concentration camp did indeed start as a euphemism but it’s not the “camp” part that was but the “concentration” part.

  • AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world
    234·
    2 months ago

    Call it something that implies the administration collectively has small penises. They seem to be insecure about that.