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> A particular target for their hostility is Congresswoman Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez, who was the first Member of Congress to correctly identify the CBP border de

> A particular target for their hostility is Congresswoman Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez, who was the first Member of Congress to correctly identify the CBP border detention facilities as "concentration camps." This is an opinion piece masked as a news piece. There are many holocaust survivors and decedents who take extreme offense to this characterization. I am rightfully flagging this, because it's not at all about tech, but what aggravates me the most is that the people who post this type of left wing political propaganda here do so without penalty, while those on the other side get shadowbanned.

mrunkel 7y ago
A story about a groups organizing on facebook isn't about tech?
- 5trokerac3 7y ago
  Can you point me to the part of the story where it discusses any relevancy of the technology used? Tech is so ubiquitous that there is literally no story about people conglomerating that doesn't involve it in some way.
bencoder 7y ago
> There are many holocaust survivors and decedents who take extreme offense to this characterization. I haven't personally come across this, only the opposite, but I suspect I'm in a bubble of sorts. Can you provide any verifiable sources for this?
- 5trokerac3 7y ago
  https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451172-holocaust-survivor-who-offered-to-tour-auschwitz-with-ocasio-cortez-calls-for https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451172-holocaust-survivor... https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-concentration-camps-holocaust-immigrants-detention-20190628-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fsports%2Fgolf+%28L.A.+Times+-+Golf%29 https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-concentration-camps-hol...
danso 7y ago
"Concentration camp" is not limited to the death camps like Auschwitz, and it is a label used by the U.S. for its own camps in past times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps#United_States_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_inte... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cave-markings-tell-cherokee-life-years-indian-removal-180971928/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cave-markings-tell-ch...
- stronglikedan 7y ago
  The difference is that people don't willingly go to concentration camps.
PavlovsCat 7y ago
You cannot speak for everybody. > When she saw the segregation of African-Americans, whether at a lunch counter or in the school system, that was, for her, like the prologue to the Nazi holocaust. Whereas many Jews now say, Never compare (Elie Wiesel’s refrain, ‘It’s bad, but it’s not The Holocaust’), my mother’s credo was, Always compare. She gladly and generously made the imaginative leap to those who were suffering, wrapping and shielding them in the embrace of her own suffering. -- Norman Finkelstein

mrunkel 7y ago

A story about a groups organizing on facebook isn't about tech?

5trokerac3 7y ago
Can you point me to the part of the story where it discusses any relevancy of the technology used? Tech is so ubiquitous that there is literally no story about people conglomerating that doesn't involve it in some way.

bencoder 7y ago

> There are many holocaust survivors and decedents who take extreme offense to this characterization. I haven't personally come across this, only the opposite, but I suspect I'm in a bubble of sorts. Can you provide any verifiable sources for this?

5trokerac3 7y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451172-holocaust-survivor-who-offered-to-tour-auschwitz-with-ocasio-cortez-calls-for https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451172-holocaust-survivor... https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-concentration-camps-holocaust-immigrants-detention-20190628-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fsports%2Fgolf+%28L.A.+Times+-+Golf%29 https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-concentration-camps-hol...

danso 7y ago

"Concentration camp" is not limited to the death camps like Auschwitz, and it is a label used by the U.S. for its own camps in past times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps#United_States_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_inte... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cave-markings-tell-cherokee-life-years-indian-removal-180971928/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cave-markings-tell-ch...

stronglikedan 7y ago
The difference is that people don't willingly go to concentration camps.

PavlovsCat 7y ago

You cannot speak for everybody. > When she saw the segregation of African-Americans, whether at a lunch counter or in the school system, that was, for her, like the prologue to the Nazi holocaust. Whereas many Jews now say, Never compare (Elie Wiesel’s refrain, ‘It’s bad, but it’s not The Holocaust’), my mother’s credo was, Always compare. She gladly and generously made the imaginative leap to those who were suffering, wrapping and shielding them in the embrace of her own suffering. -- Norman Finkelstein