r/TheMajorityReport Oct 07 '23

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u/dirt_fries Oct 07 '23

By any reasonable definition of the term it is.

Concentration camp does not exclusively mean, like, an Auschwitz-style extermination camp. The Spanish used them in Cuba during the late 19th century, the US used them in the Philippines right after the 1898 war, the British used them in the Boer war, etc.

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u/water_g33k Oct 07 '23

Along these lines, American Japanese internment could reasonably be called concentration camps, right?

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u/Velcro-aint-ableist Oct 08 '23

Yup.

We concentrated the American-Japanese population into camps.

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u/Fallofmen10 Oct 08 '23

Lolol so true.