A Crime by Any Name
July 3, 201916 min read3145 words
Published: July 3, 2019  |  16 min read3145 words
T in the press were hard to believe.Detainees described that “it was difficult to move in any direction without jostling and being jostled.” The water provided them was foul, “of a dark color, and an ordinary glass would collect a thick sediment.” The “authorities never removed a...
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Great Context
July 5, 2019
The writing in this article is biased, but quite fact based as well. Focussing 1/2 of the article on the Confederacy and contrasting that with this 2019 abuse of human rights is a highly effective contrast. While the article explains clearly that AOC's concentration camp comment is accurate, and she didn't say "death camp" (which is how Holocaust-focussed people seem to over-focus), the end has a surprising conclusion -- whether concentration camp is accurate or not is a semantic time waste, the issue is that these camps are criminal and unjust and will go down in history as such. Side notes -- various politicians have summarized aspects of thist latest Trump human rights violation correctly as 'child abuse', 'kidnapping', and more, but what about the facts that these people are being prejudged as guilty, punished in advance of any crime being determined, and suffering in horrible conditions for no reason? Putting people in cages is bad for humanity, even if the people have done horrible criminal acts. But caging innocent people and torturing them for no reason is only defensible from the position of a racist mysogynist egomaniac who arbitrarily takes away the rights of people while participating in many criminal shenanigans to profit himself and his cohort of wealthy racist sociopaths.
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Great Context
July 6, 2019
This article really does, as other reviewers have already pointed out, provides great context on the camps themselves and the situation we find ourselves in today.
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July 5, 2019
The author provides a significant amount of historical detail that puts the current situation in context comparing to a number of similar situations in the past. Specifically, he talks about the 'concentration camp' discussions and compares to historical incidents from the civil war, World War I, and other times. This, combined with the many sources cited, takes away much of the melodrama in the discussions of this matter seen elsewhere.
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