Thread by @ashtonpittman

If you’re more outraged by Nike canceling a shoe than by your government locking babies, children, and adults up in cages and telling them to drink out of the toilet if they want water, then it’s time to worry less about your soles and more about your soul. #WalkAwayFromNike

These photos are real, no matter how much you try to deny it. These concentration camps are real. The deaths in these dens of hell are real.

As horror stories about our treatment of adults, children, and babies at America’s border concentration camps continue to emerge, I’m reminded of this quote from Elie Wiesel, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who spent years in Nazi concentration camps. (1/6)

Just as so many Americans now look away from the wicked human rights abuses that are being carried out in our name, so, too, did Germans in the 1930s—and that enabled the escalation of the Nazi atrocities, which began with separating families and concentration camps,... (2/6)

...but ended with death camps in which millions of innocent human beings were gassed, marched to the ovens, and otherwise murdered through neglect, malnourishment, and the spread of disease. (3/6)

If #NeverAgainIsNow, we are already several steps down a path like that of the Shoah. And our indifference will only allow this wickedness to progress further. (4/6)

Jews in Nazi Germany were human beings. So, too, are the migrant refugees and their children who we are now treating so badly that, were they dogs, their facilities would be raided and those responsible for the abuse jailed. #ClosetheCamps (5/6)

Our government and the people in charge dehumanize migrant refugees—children and adults alike—every single day, and it’s up to us to stand strong against that.

The opposite of love is not hate—it’s indifference.

#DontLookAway #NeverAgain (6/6)

“Concentration camps in general have always been designed...to separate one group of people from another. Usually, because the majority group, or the creators of the camp, deem the people they're putting in it to be dangerous or undesirable in some way."
google.com/amp/s/www.esqu…

Fact Check: No, the Obama administration did not start this:

“Bush & Obama didn’t have policies that resulted in the mass separation of parents and children like we’re seeing under the current administration.”
factcheck.org/2018/06/did-th…

The federal government is set to pay BCFS, a contractor, $300 million between now and January to operate a new facility (concentration camp) built to hold 1,600 children. Make no mistake, people are getting wealthy off of this.
cbsnews.com/news/carrizo-s…

Fact Check: “It was then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions who instituted the "zero tolerance" policy at the Southern border in April 2018, which resulted in children being separated from their parents who were taken into custody for criminal prosecution.”

npr.org/2019/04/09/711…

And if Breitbart or The Blaze have you doubting whether or not CBP agents told detainees to drink out of toilets:

https://twitter.com/rollcall/status/1146380315352535040?s=21

Migrant children whom the American government separated from their families and held captive for long periods are now drawing pictures of themselves in cages weeks after their release, CBS reports.

I hope we’re all proud of ourselves, America.

During her tour of the facilities, Dr. Sara Goza, the incoming president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said she saw children who had “no expression on their faces, there was no laughing, there was no joking, no talking.”

"I describe them almost like dog cages...”