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The Nazis visited El Paso to learn how our government was using camps to “delouse” migrant workers. It’s where they found zyklon-b.
I’ve tweeted about this many times over the years, including passages from relevant books and newspaper articles from the time. I’m uninterested in digging it up again, but luckily there’s a thing called google for finding it
Look if concentration camp offends sensibilities, fine. Semantics are the last fucking thing we need to be worrying about, and if that’s your hangup ... whatever. Call it what you want. It’s horrendous and unforgivable cruelty in a very real, very immediate sense.
Words have meaning, as does naming things. But when our brothers and sisters are suffering, when they look to us - the ones in who’s name their suffering is meted out - that’s a discussion that can be tabled.
