General Discussion

From OP article…

“Well they take people to—I understand that—but they take people to Fort Snelling here which literally was built as a concentration camp, and Alligator Alcatraz, which I think we can all agree is a concentration camp. I’m not saying they're Dachau. I'm not saying they're putting people in ovens yet, but these are concentration camps.”

Big snip…

Of course historians remembered; reality didn’t vanish. But with the general failure to remember that Auschwitz was literally part of the Nazi concentration camp system before the extermination camp at Birkenau was ever built, people lost sight of how such evil found its way into the world.

Those early Nazi camps made the extermination camps possible. They existed for years, as the cruelties inside them expanded, providing the bureaucratic systems, personnel, and tactics that led to the Holocaust. And those pre-death-camp German camps were in many respects very similar to other concentration camp systems that have existed around the world on several continents.

They were also very similar to the camps the U.S. is currently filling and building. Seamus Culleton, an Irishman detained for months in Camp East Montana in Texas, describes lack of food and violence, calling the facility a “modern day concentration camp.” Three deaths have taken place there so far—one already ruled a homicide—and the ACLU has reported sexual assaults and beatings.

The conditions of camp detention will always worsen over the long haul, and the conditions in U.S. camps are already terrifying. But the key thing to look at is less the starting conditions in them than how individuals arrive there.

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