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Seriously can't even begin to understand American Jews who are right now going to such efforts to normalise the use of "concentration camps" in current political debate. Is that the hill you want do die on? Is it so important that you can't just come up with a different term?
And yes, concentration camps was originally a term used by the British in the Boer War. And yes, Liz Cheney is a hypocrite. And yes, the administration's border policy is inhumane and cruel. So what? To many of us, concentration camps mean the numbers on our grandparent's arms.
Even if you think that the terrible situation right now justifies using "concentration camp", which is a legitimate view. It's backfired. For the last 24 hours the debate has been about whether it's OK to use the term, not about the administration's terrible plan.
There's a group of Jews on the right who have abandoned all notion of Jewish solidarity, rather than acknowledge that Trump is a racist who has encouraged Neo-Nazis. Why do some Jews on the left have to imitate them? How hard is it to ask a Congresswoman to just use another word?
