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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi blows off AOC 'concentration camp' remarks [View all]Nuggets
(525 posts)29. What is Ms. Ocasio-Cortez doing to stop this
besides labeling the deportation centers as concentration camps thus minimizing the experiences of people who died in the German camps. Specifically designed to bring up images of Nazi camps but they imo just more of her divisive ramblings.
What has SHE personally done to help stop it?
Dems had already brought focus and been helping these detainees, so why?
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A friend explained it like this. "When they rounded up women and children behind barbed wire,
Autumn
Jun 2019
#73
It's part of our history. The camps, where the Japanese were held, were known as concentration camps
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2019
#24
You sure have a lot of theories about what is and isn't a concentration camp
Blues Heron
Jun 2019
#32
Not in S Africa, California WW2, Yugoslavia civil war, & many other places. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#140
This. Is. How. It. Starts. Otherize/demonize. Segregate. Deny civil rights & human rights.Imprison.
Hekate
Jun 2019
#142
Among the names on this wall is 13 of my family who died in a REAL concentration camp
Jake Stern
Jun 2019
#36
Oh, bullshit! Events set names. Concentration camps post WWII have a defined meaning.
GulfCoast66
Jun 2019
#51
No, she is right on a broader level. They are concentration camps, and it is a moral issue.
demmiblue
Jun 2019
#6
Some may think AOC right on a narrower level; ethical, moral, legal, ideological, [all fine
empedocles
Jun 2019
#8
One would think crimes against humanity would be considered serious by most. Nt
Gore1FL
Jun 2019
#77
No question from me: there are very powerful moral, legal, ethical, etc. issues that need to be
empedocles
Jun 2019
#112
The concentration camps were the machinery of genocide, mass murder. There, people were worked to
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#35
I can fix that, but I can't fix your sweeping "wrong on facts, wrong on history..." which is no
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#41
It seems to me you know of only one example in history of 'concentration camps.'
pangaia
Jun 2019
#65
I have learned that the definition can be applied to other examples. However, I think Ocasio-Cortez
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#68
Since folks here have educated me, I now know that "concentration camp" can describe a wider
emmaverybo
Jun 2019
#86
This...once again we're off arguing semantics about what to call something...
Wounded Bear
Jun 2019
#42
What's outrageous to me is that some in the media have made AOC's comments the outrageous
ecstatic
Jun 2019
#23
We've lost our way. They are going to concentrate a group of ppl into camps. Millions trump says
Kurt V.
Jun 2019
#27
What does the Jewish community have to do with the concentration camps we have on our border?
Gore1FL
Jun 2019
#91
You make the classic error confusing death camps with concentration camps.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#136
Calling a Concentration Camp a Concentration Camp should not be as controversial as having them. nt
Gore1FL
Jun 2019
#94
She was part of the wave that energized the base that gave the Dems the majority...
WoonTars
Jun 2019
#134
When Pelosi is Speaker of the House she'll hold the second most powerful elected position in the USA
Hekate
Jun 2019
#113
Misleading. Nancy did not "blow off AOC." She specifically said she had not spoken with AOC...
Hekate
Jun 2019
#109
I suspect there are some who are intentionally trying to soe division among Democrats.
still_one
Jun 2019
#124
The New York Post (Trump's favorite rag and the source of the cited headline and story)
lapucelle
Jun 2019
#111