'concentration camp' has a strong association with the holocaust, regardless of what camp type you're talking about. if someone smashes a few windows at night you wouldn't call it a kristallnacht.
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Replying to @suchaone
shrug, sure there are strong associations, but it doesn't denote anything to do with the holocaust. american camps for japanese people were just as much concentration camps. the kristallnacht analogy would be stronger if people were saying 'konzentrationslager'
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Replying to @chaosprime
do you really believe that the phrasing was chosen without the holocaust in mind?
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Replying to @suchaone
no, but so what? you can call a spade a spade even if people associate spades with the holocaust
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Replying to @chaosprime
if she meant to compare the situation with the holocaust, and all her followers understood the comparison, it's legitimate for her critics to understand it in the same way
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Replying to @suchaone
shrug, sure, and Our Concentration Camps Are Different would be a valid response. Our Camps Aren't Concentration Camps Because They Lack a Property of Concentration Camps also. Our Camps Aren't Concentration Camps Because We're Not Executing People is just a non sequitur
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Replying to @chaosprime
the word 'concentration camp', in nonacademic english language, means the nazi camps and has the implication that they may turn into death camps
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Replying to @suchaone
so it's "when you say concentration camp people think you're saying death camp and we're not killing anybody except by neglect so that's not fair"?
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Replying to @chaosprime @suchaone
death by neglect in against-your-will confined circumstances is murder/homicide; i feel like you don't need to play semantics here, you're in the right
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Replying to @neutronglitch @chaosprime
it is, but it's no reason to compare it to the holocaust. and if you do compare it to the holocaust, at least have the balls to admit it and not play autistic language games.
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what, you don't enjoy seeing the "troll your enemies into saying clearly factually incorrect things because they're reacting to what you meant not what you said" technique finally starting to make the rounds?
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Replying to @chaosprime @neutronglitch
I do not. it's bad regardless of who does it.
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