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Sure, but I don't know if I've ever heard anyone use the term "concentration camp" without qualifiers to refer to anything else than the nazi concentration camp
by SahAssar 5y ago
Sure, but I don't know if I've ever heard anyone use the term "concentration camp" without qualifiers to refer to anything else than the nazi concentration camps (or something equivalent).
If someone says that something is "_literally_ a concentration camp" I think that most people will think of ovens and genocide.
Perhaps it's a regional thing, but that is how I interpreted it.
- sombremesa 5y agoIt's not so much a regional as a political thing. Want it to sound worse? Use concentration camp. Want it to sound better? Use internment camp (or in some cases, re-education facility).
- michael1999 5y agoOr “Reserve”.
- dragonwriter 5y agoRelevant to that, the US WWII internment camps were...placed on land taken from (with disputedly-adequate compensation for the use) reservation land.
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