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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 4 months ago

Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.

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Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.

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This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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    Alligator Auschwitz works for that. Someone called it that last week.

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      We shouldn’t use any of the branding the nazis have provided. It’s the Everglades concentration camp.

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        One of the few new things the current crop of fascists have invented is a way to make all this horror sound fun and harmless by the use of mean humor.

        So, yes, don’t call it that. I agree.

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        Why?

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            I 100% disagree. It’s catchy, it’s exactly the same, and gives you a picture in your head instantly.

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                I agree. As fun as it is to say, it puts a bit of humor into a humorless situation. No one would laugh if someone said German-Jew-Barbecue.

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                  no one would laugh

                  You sweet summer child

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                But it helps to have a marketing slogan to get others to understand that this is a bad thing. They built a facility for people to go and die in. Might as well call it Auschwitz.

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