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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 18
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      The term "concentration camp" obviously evokes parallels to the Holocaust and if that's not what you're intending to do, simply pick another term. See? Easy

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      Michael Tracey Retweeted CNN

      Example of how you can discuss contemporary problems without lapsing into ridiculously inflammatory hyperbole that recalls the most catastrophic era in human historyhttps://twitter.com/CNN/status/1141151760087769093 …

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      “I have not used that word,” says 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, asked about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referring to housing for migrants at the border as "concentration camps." http://cnn.it/2XTCyXY  pic.twitter.com/6tiEV0XiDO
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        1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 18
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          But if you want to "cancel" Bernie for declining to posit that 2019 America is meaningfully comparable to 1939 Germany, go ahead I guess

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        1. oobilly‏ @oobilly1 Jun 18
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          USA invented concentration camps.... see Native Indians. British 'improved' them during the Boer war... Germans through their hat into the ring. Along with Soviets.

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        1. Tipping Odds Podcast. Mitch‏ @TippingOddsLV Jun 18
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          Exactly

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        1. Chayton‏ @chay1907 Jun 18
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          Honestly I can find 100s of examples within the last ten years of “concentration camp” being used as an expression. But it’s getting late and I’m too lazy to google. It’s just an expression, and the usage fits the meaning. I’m sorry for all the people who lost their lives in WW2.

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        1. Dr Strangelove‏ @DoctorStrangel3 Jun 18
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          But... there is this nonsense..pic.twitter.com/uESAgVDvrK

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        1. Mort au Fascisme‏ @URMort Jun 18
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          Bernie needs to step up his game.

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          If you don’t refer to catastrophic mistakes, when u are on a path to repeat them, the you will probably repeat them

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        1. Tobin Sterritt‏ @flanjager Jun 19
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          I'd be hard-pressed to call it inflammatory in view of the of the subject it refers to.

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        2. pet rock  🌹‏ @petrock Jun 18
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          you have no idea what you're talking about, Michael

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          Extremely on brand for him.

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        2. TrelanJ‏ @JTrelan Jun 18
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          Also, the genocide of native Americans(throughout the Americas) and African enslavement in the Americas can be categorized as being *more* catastrophic than the 1930s.

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        1. Das Highgate‏ @biafarin Jun 18
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          Sorrry to hear @AOC is grating your mainstream sensibilities @mtracey! She gave @Liz_Cheney her logic for using the language she used and it was well supported logically and historically. @SenSanders may not agree and that is ok. Got his own opinion. Not sure what your point is.

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        1. Lap Hound‏ @mylillizajane Jun 18
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          But if you're AOC, it's what you do. She's the hyperbole princess.

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        1. TrelanJ‏ @JTrelan Jun 18
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          Don't trivialize what Trump's racist regime is doing to people. Some have actually died. 'Concentration camp" is apt.

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        1. Giacomo Puccini‏ @GiacomoPuccini_ Jun 18
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          Not 100% on board with this. Are you suggesting the Holocaust is somehow sacred or uniquely untouchable in certain contexts? I'm sure there have been plenty of catastrophic events in the past & present, many on the level of the Holocaust, so don't understand why be "offended"

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        1. D Wailer‏ @Droosaid Jun 18
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          Maybe you’d now give an example of someone using their own language as they see fit and without being told how to articulate themselves. You know, showing some of the respect you presumably require. No one owns language.

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        1. toast‏ @toastmodernist Jun 19
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          For someone who shouted "no collusion" (which isn't even an indictable, legal term to begin with) you sure are taking AOC's word choice very seriously.

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