No, let’s not.
I see the parallels between what they’re doing and the beginning of the third Reich. I’m absolutely not bringing some silly Godwin argument. But this comparison is a step too far for me.
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Deepest apologies! meant it to shock the vile trump nazis and not anyone else. deleted the notion and will banish myself from here for two weeks in contrition.
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I mean, don’t banish yourself! Acknowledging it is enough, I should think
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They aren’t shocked. They meme it constantly. Like they’re into it. Maga would buy that T-shirt and wear it with joy because it is funny and true.
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By the powers I assume for myself as a TL3 I pardon you
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I keep wondering when he’s going to complain about the city of Newcastle not buying our coal exports.
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Why? Because this particular prison camp isn’t on foreign soil unlike some of the others? Because they haven’t opened up work camps and murder camps beside the detention camp yet? Because they don’t dehumanise the prisoners? Because they put them there after due process? Because they don’t boast about how harsh and inhumane the treatment is?
This is quite like Auschwitz I, worse than when it opened. Who knows how far they will go with their camps?
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We really need to let of of this idea that we can’t compare anything to the holocaust. We can and should do that, because concentration camps are a spectrum of state unlawful actions.
I highly recommend people read this book, to see how concentration camps have been used by various states historically… If anything, the Holocaust should have put the final nail in the coffin in the whole concept, but here we are…
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I probably wouldn’t care much if he had to spend some time there. At least 6 months.
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That would rule.
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Because you had to qualify this statement quite a bit.
Auschwitz was a deathcamp. It was a site of industrial mass murder on a scale that is unprecedented and frankly unimaginable.
I don’t really want to discuss this
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I do understand the outrage, but anyone who cannot see that this is exactly where we are headed and doesn’t want to see it because it is too terrible should have the right to step back and breath. But the fact is, Auschwitz wasn’t Auschwitz at its beginning. It grew into the horror that we think of now. It is my opinion that Il Douche and his cronies are very much headed in that direction. Look at the failed (for now) law that they tried to pass in MS punishing illegal immigration with life in prison without parole, at hard labor. This is the direction they are going, and no one will convince me that they do not know this. The horrors of the Nazi regime are exactly that. Horrors. There have been other horrors historically, other genocides, but they all seem to fall under the “we can’t talk about that” tarp. We can, we have to, because it is where we are going now, and if we refuse to discuss, to learn, from that history, we absolutely will repeat it. I am aware it pulls open old scars on lots of people, and I feel bad for that, but it is opening fresh wounds on a whole new population and we need to keep talking about that if we are to do anything about it!
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I know all that. I still don’t like seeing it as a quippy nickname for a prison. Make the argument in paragraph form, like you just did, in an op ed or a newspaper commentary and it’s a warning sign and a historical insight. It’s not an alliterative quip.
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It’s sometimes necessary to convey ideas quickly. Hard to get a paragraph on a placard.
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