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| Topic | Rabbi: Never again means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits |
| hockeybub89 06/23/19 1:23:33 PM #76: | Fam_Fam posted... also some people need to realize that there is more to language than the dictionary definition of a term. clearly the term concentration camp is invariably linked to Nazi Germany. Making an argument based on definitions is fine, but its completely disingenuous to pretend the language isn't loaded because of this connection. It's not like Nazi concentration camps are some completely different animal, just the worst example of this shit. There is no good connotation of "Concentration camp". If an accurate label is making people uncomfortable, then that is the point. Again, there is no point in "Never again" if we aren't supposed to criticize the inhumane actions of governments until they are mid neo-Holpcaust. Zero tolerance for the inhumane. I feel like if we used "nicer" language that people would still try to shrug off this shit. "This isn't as bad as our Japanese internment camps. These people aren't citizens. They're breaking the law. They shouldn't have come here." That's going on already anyway. Plenty of people here or elsewhere are essentially absolving our actions because we wouldn't be inhumane if these illegals didn't show up at the border. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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