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Right wingers being angry about @AOC calling concentration camps on the border what they are is NOT abt wanting 2 not diminish the Holocaust. Its bc THEY diminished it by calling what were mostly DEATH camps, concentration camps. They minimized Jewish suffering, not AOC...
There were some camps under Nazism that were mostly concentration or forced labor camps, rather than extermination camps. But we've tended to use "concentration camp" for all of them, thereby diminishing the Nazi terror, and eliding how we have set up concentration camps...
conservatives understand neither history nor language, and that's how we get folks like Liz Cheney running their mouths about things beyond their pay grade...
