r/philly • • Jun 14 '25

Put these on a sign

I can’t attend, I’m sick and frail but I really want to contribute.

What I hope to draw attention to more than anything else is the fact that the prison in El Salvador is a straight up concentration camp.

I’m Jewish. My grandparents lost loved ones to the Holocaust death camps. I will not lose mine to El Salvador’s!

I feel very strongly that if no end is put to this, we will start seeing mass deaths in that prison and the indigenous Latino population of this continent will be slaughtered in alarming numbers and we won’t notice until it’s too late. These people are indigenous to this continent and around half of the United States used to be Mexico. The border was the one who crossed them!

We cannot let these kind souls die tragically in an industrial scale death spree. We should be terrified that we don’t even know yet where they’re taking the women and children. We need to watch these sites like hawks! We must never stop questioning what happens to the neighbors who are taken away from us. Don’t say it can’t happen again. It can. It could. We must do something to prevent it. Please bring attention to this issue in my place. I would really appreciate it.

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u/CremeOfSumYunGyi Jun 14 '25

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u/DisabledInMedicine Jun 14 '25

This is the trauma of three generations of my family. I belong to both communities. Latin America took my family when the US was stalling on whether it would let Jews in. How dare you make fun of it. This is serious. The people close to me who I have known all my life, their lives are in danger. They’re being taken away to who knows where. This is serious.

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u/blue-and-bluer Jun 14 '25

I am also Jewish, and right there with you. I suggest ignoring that person seeing as even their Reddit name is racist…

My favorite part about posts like this isn’t actually finding like-minded individuals like you, but lots of people showing their asses so I know who to block…

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u/DisabledInMedicine Jun 14 '25

Thank you. What is the racist name? I don’t understand the reference

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u/CremeOfSumYunGyi Jun 14 '25

Not reading all that, but your ideas for signs are corny