[D66] Concentratiekampen in de VS

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https://www.businessinsider.nl/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tweets-concentration-camps-us-mexico-border-2019-6-2/

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ignited a firestorm after she spent 3 days
calling US migrant detention centers ‘concentration camps’
Eliza Relman
20 Jun 2019


    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is aggressively doubling down on her
argument that the US government’s migrant detention centers are
“concentration camps,” despite substantial pushback.
    The freshman congresswoman has tweeted more than a dozen times about
the issue and re-tweeted nearly two dozen scholars, journalists, and
descendants of Holocaust survivors who defended her.
    Ocasio-Cortez said the migrant detention facilities amount to
concentration camps because they’re detaining people without trial. And
she argued that those upset with her use of the term should instead
focus on what she says is the dehumanization of migrants on the border.
    “I will never apologize for calling these camps what they are. If
that makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps – not the nomenclature,”
she tweeted Wednesday.

On 24-06-19 00:54, A.OUT wrote:
> (En de NOS zwijgt over de feiten.)
> 
> https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentration-camps-southern-border-migrant-detention-facilities-trump/
> 
> An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is
> Running at the Border
> By
> Jack Holmes
> esquire.com
> 18 min
> View Original
> 
> Surely, the United States of America could not operate concentration
> camps. In the American consciousness, the term is synonymous with the
> Nazi death machines across the European continent that the Allies began
> the process of dismantling 75 years ago this month. But while the
> world-historical horrors of the Holocaust are unmatched, they are only
> the most extreme and inhuman manifestation of a concentration-camp
> system—which, according to Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A
> Global History of Concentration Camps, has a more global definition.
> There have been concentration camps in France, South Africa, Cuba, the
> Soviet Union, and—with Japanese internment—the United States. In fact,
> she contends we are operating such a system right now in response to a
> very real spike in arrivals at our southern border.
> 
> “We have what I would call a concentration camp system,” Pitzer says,
> “and the definition of that in my book is, mass detention of civilians
> without trial.”
> 
> Historians use a broader definition of concentration camps, as well.
> 
> "What's required is a little bit of demystification of it," says Waitman
> Wade Beorn, a Holocaust and genocide studies historian and a lecturer at
> the University of Virginia. "Things can be concentration camps without
> being Dachau or Auschwitz. Concentration camps in general have always
> been designed—at the most basic level—to separate one group of people
> from another group. Usually, because the majority group, or the creators
> of the camp, deem the people they're putting in it to be dangerous or
> undesirable in some way."
> 
> 
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