Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prepares to wait tables at the Queensboro Restaurant, May 31, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City.Rachel Ida Buff, a professor of American studies who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, toldOcasio-Cortez was"absolutely" correct to describe U.S. migrant detention centers as concentration camps.
"An initial reaction could easily be to say, 'no, the detention centers at the U.S. border are not the same as the Nazi camps,'" she said. But to say the term applies only to camps set up by the Nazi regime is incorrect and only signals"an ahistorical understanding of the Holocaust," she added. And for the shrieking Republicans who donât know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps.
Amy Simon, Michigan State University's William and Audrey Farber family endowed chair in Holocaust studies and European Jewish history, toldOcasio-Cortez was 'completely historically accurate' in her use of the phrase"concentration camp." While there were"important differences" between Nazi concentration camps and migrant detention centers—such as the historical context, the motivations and the sheer level of horror—"there are also important historical similarities that should give us pause," she said.
As well as"undermining" left-wing voices, they are reserving the Holocaust as"a bludgeon to attack those who disagree with their views on Israel, Iran, or other political issues," he said."They are not trying to educate the public about the Holocaust."
Do the TrumpCamps keep stockpiles of Zyclon-B on hand as well?
Academics rally behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over TrumpCamps comments
... 11millions of people, 20 different nationalities, gays, priests, gypsies, people with mental physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anarchists, Poles, Slavic peoples, resistance fighters went to concentration camps... now refugees and kids.
More biased, reporting. You quote a few left-wing academics. If you were journalists, you would acknowledge the critics and quote them as well. But you're not reporters; you're shrieking Social Justice Warriors advocating for illegal immigration.
Where's your concern over the condition of children in abortion clinics?
Fact-checking newsweek and its left-wing Social Justice Warriors, detention centers aren't remotely close to concentration camps despite lying aoc and her 'alternative facts.'
once they knew what the camps were, how many Jews snuck into Nazi occupied territory for a better life?
“Academics” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
HC_Richardson Then again, a ruse is a ruse is a ruse.
Not just academics, also most people that have access to a dictionary!
^^^^^5
Hardly a rally. Most took issue with her use of the term.
It is anyone doing anything. Just pointing fingers.. oh
HC_Richardson Educated people who know what they’re talking about
Salacious hyperbole
Shocker. And by the way, what the fuck is AOCs solution to this? She sure won't fund a bill to help the illegal immigrants
Apparently you didn’t listen to the Holocaise Museum’s rebuke of her asinine comments.
Academics, now that’s funny!
Can anyone do anything?
NEWSWEEK magazine a concentration camp of Anti Trump boring ' news'.
'SHE IS COMPLETELY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE' Show me any historical picture showing Jews walking thousands of miles to climb over 'walls' to get into a camp.
Blunt, cold, hard facts is how you have to take to the far Reich. It took the media 18 months before they started calling Trump's 'misstatements' what they were -LIES. Truth will make you free. TrumpConcentrationCamps
Of course,they are all lefties with TDS. EVERY honest person knows what she was insinuating with her comments, the fact that we still talking about it is asinine,she should admit what she meant and we can all move on, but she won’t, she’s a fraud from Yorktown Heights
shbeetle AOC So refreshing to see a politician that tells the truth ! 👍😊 KeepUpTheGoodWork
To use the term 'concentration camp' is not wrong, wrong is to link the detention of illegal immigrants to process them accordingly and the detention with the finality of assassination, and when she uses the term 'never again' it shows how evil and manipulative that person is.
Truth hurts
stupidity beyond imagination...
So Obama was running concentration camps too? And Congress still hasn't figured out a solution? Why are Democrats blocking the $4.5 Billion in humanitarian aid requested by Trump?
It doesn't take much of a clue to realize that the USA is running concentration camps on American soil. How far will Trump lower the bar?
This is why no one trusts academics.
The words of her critics couldn't be more hollow, as they stand by and support trump's policies of keeping children in conditions which may be classified as abuse.
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