So, uh. If your viewpoint is that we shouldn't use the term "concentration camp" because the right turned it into an argument over terminology. What's your magic solution that you think they *can't* do that with?
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If we try to outsmart them by not using a label for the concentration camps they can object to, we'll wind up calling it protective custody.
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The way we avoid falling into the trap of fighting them over terminology is: we don't fight. We just say the words and keep moving. It would be easier to do this if the media gave us as much deference as they do the right, whom they let set the frame without question. But.
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"But we're handing them ammunition!" They own a munitions factory. They make their ammo. They recycle whatever's lying around into ammo and they shoot us with it. Every time. Hindsight bias says "We could have avoided that."
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If we call them concentration camps and they hammer us with that, hindsight bias says "We could have avoided that by not using those words!" So we call them internment camps, and we get 24 hours of "Is this disrespectful to Japanese-Americans?"
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We call them prisons and we get 24 hours of "Actually this is not part of the penal system." and "They're saying we're putting children in prison, which is clearly hyperbolic. They get cookies." Whatever words you choose are the words they'll question.
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See, the idea that we could do an end run around them on this presupposes that they were there waiting with bated breath, just all lined up behind the door that magically opens for the exact password to spring out and attack us. And if we didn't say it, they'd be stuck.
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But they weren't! They didn't have a specific plan that hinged on us doing a specific thing! They are not movie villain mastermind who somehow know exactly what turns and twists the heroes will take! Their plan will not fall apart if we do something else!
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Their plan is much simpler, and the rebuttal phase has one step: 1. Whatever we their opponents say is WRONG.
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Time and time I watch us collectively make this mistake. Sitting out for fear of any action playing into their hands. Trying to figure out what Trump or Bannon or anyone is "counting on" and then doing the opposite, which usually means doing nothing.
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We lost SO MUCH momentum in the early days, so many chances for organization, so much opportunity to grind the regime to a halt, because of fear that any real resistance was "playing into their hands", any talk of where we were heading was "alarmism".
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