Lawmaker says Alligator Alcatraz is an ‘internment camp’ after joint GOP-Dem visit
Lawmaker says Alligator Alcatraz is an ‘internment camp’ after joint GOP-Dem visit

Lawmaker says Alligator Alcatraz is an ‘internment camp’ after joint GOP-Dem visit

A Democratic congresswoman has given a scathing review of the Trump administration’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, describing it as an “internment camp” that needs to be “shut the hell down.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida's 25th congressional district, said that pictures of the facility “don’t do it justice” and that detainees were being “packed into cages.”
On Saturday Florida lawmakers from both parties took a state-arranged tour of the new 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland in the Everglades.
STOP CALLING IT ALCATRAZ.
Alcatraz was for criminals who were found guilty in a trial.
This is AUSCHWITZ
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, every time I hear potential terrible plans on social media, it seems like they take it as a guide.
"Now that we're here, what should we do?" "Gee, I don't know Tom. Let's see what the liberals on Reddit are crying about and do that."
Auschwitz was an extermination camp, not a concentration camp. This is more like Dachau. Pretty accurately like Dachau I'd even say.
Yeah let's weaken our political messaging for the camp where acting forces want to feed the latino population to alligators in the name of pedantry! Fuck the fact that most Americans would probably guess Dachau is a cheese or something, and that Auschwitz is certainly the most recognizable of the camps taught from the holocaust, we want to be 5% more correct!
Look, if you put people in "concentration camps" until they die, wouldn't that be an extermination camp, even if you aren't doing anything to accelerate their deaths?
You're right, BUT -
this is a majorly fucked up timeline when people are complaining that it's too mean to call a US concentration camp "Auschwitz" when it's clearly just harmless little "Dachau." Dachau led to Auschwitz and if the normalization of it is any indication, it WILL happen again here. THAT'S why people are calling it that - we've seen this shit before and know how it ends.
I mean. They built it in the middle of a swamp. I wouldn't be surprised if the next time that area gets a particularly heavy rain it'll morph into an extermination camp in a matter of hours.
But the alliteration....
No. This is Dachau. They're not yet at the stage where they operate gas chambers. They'll get there soon enough, though.
Auschwitz did not start as an extermination camp, either.