The Shoah, aka the Holocaust, remains unique. A concentration camp is not the same as an extermination camp. Even the Nazis kept them separate, though often next to each other. But “concentration camps” and “genocide” have been part of too much history outside of WWII to be removed from discourse. What Israel is doing to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is nothing like what the Nazis did to Jews. But it is pretty similar to what the Turks did to the Armenians. Despite Turkey not wanting anyone to mention it, that was the Armenian Genocide. The uniqueness of the Nazis does not excuse those who build slightly lesser systems of oppression and control.
It is wrong for Jake Tapper to draw the conclusion that concentration camps only existed in Nazi Germany. I live in Latvia, which during the course of World War II underwent both Soviet and Nazi occupation. The Nazis established a ghetto in the capital of Riga and eventually shot almost everyone who was there. But two weeks before they arrived, the Soviet occupants deported around 13,000 people from Latvia to Siberia and the Gulag, which was the definition of what a concentration camp is. If Jake Tapper or anyone is looking for terminology that will absolutely fit the Nazis, then the word is "Gestapo" to describe ICE and its operations.
The Germans had Concentration Camps in their African colony and actually used that phrase, not to forget the British in South Africa, as usual with Media types a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I ask the question: who benefits from splitting hairs here? Beware of getting distracted by purity tests that steer us away from overlapping traits that should all be red flags. I appreciate the point that it's going to be easier to block the construction of human warehouses than undo the damage they will cause. If anyone objects to the warehouses being called concentration camps then we need to make them describe what a "real" concentration camp is in detail, so we can understand how to be as comfortable with the idea as they are. "Just for Jews"? How about humans! Many buildings instead of one huge building? What's the difference?!? Deportation purpose? Jews were transported out of their homes and communities for warehousing too. Distinctions without a difference!
The Shoah, aka the Holocaust, remains unique. A concentration camp is not the same as an extermination camp. Even the Nazis kept them separate, though often next to each other. But “concentration camps” and “genocide” have been part of too much history outside of WWII to be removed from discourse. What Israel is doing to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is nothing like what the Nazis did to Jews. But it is pretty similar to what the Turks did to the Armenians. Despite Turkey not wanting anyone to mention it, that was the Armenian Genocide. The uniqueness of the Nazis does not excuse those who build slightly lesser systems of oppression and control.
It is wrong for Jake Tapper to draw the conclusion that concentration camps only existed in Nazi Germany. I live in Latvia, which during the course of World War II underwent both Soviet and Nazi occupation. The Nazis established a ghetto in the capital of Riga and eventually shot almost everyone who was there. But two weeks before they arrived, the Soviet occupants deported around 13,000 people from Latvia to Siberia and the Gulag, which was the definition of what a concentration camp is. If Jake Tapper or anyone is looking for terminology that will absolutely fit the Nazis, then the word is "Gestapo" to describe ICE and its operations.
The Germans had Concentration Camps in their African colony and actually used that phrase, not to forget the British in South Africa, as usual with Media types a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I say call things what they are. Denial helped get us here. JMO.
Another term is “death camps”
Jake Tapper has demonstrated himself to be a pretentious sellout.
I ask the question: who benefits from splitting hairs here? Beware of getting distracted by purity tests that steer us away from overlapping traits that should all be red flags. I appreciate the point that it's going to be easier to block the construction of human warehouses than undo the damage they will cause. If anyone objects to the warehouses being called concentration camps then we need to make them describe what a "real" concentration camp is in detail, so we can understand how to be as comfortable with the idea as they are. "Just for Jews"? How about humans! Many buildings instead of one huge building? What's the difference?!? Deportation purpose? Jews were transported out of their homes and communities for warehousing too. Distinctions without a difference!
Fuck Jake Tapper!!
STFU TAPPER. CONCENTRATION & DEATH CAMPS ARE SHAT THEY ARE
Fuck Jake Tapper. He has forfeited all credibility with this pair of viewers. And will Netflix win?