Cable news people call them “prison camps” or “Trump prison camps,” but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is:
“[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.”
But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:
“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”
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Just as a thought exercise, can you fathom and put into words a hypothetical breaking point that would wake people up to the madness around them?
Because here’s my prediction: the regime will commit atrocity after atrocity, each one somehow more monstrous than the last, and nothing will happen, because your first paragraph will still be true. They will start wars and nothing will happen because your first paragraph will still be true. Then suddenly WWIII will happen and the regime will be unstoppable. Then, some manner of nuclear exchange, potentially marking the end of human civilization, because all fascist regimes end up destroying themselves – too bad this one has the power to take the entire fucking world down with it.
If you are right that Americans won’t fight for decency now (and I think you are), then all hope is lost. All historical precedent says that we are past the point of no return and you’ve forfeited your - and quite possibly humanity’s - future.
Honestly, it’ll be a Kent State or stonewall riots kinda thing, which is what they want so they have the legal excuse to stop the midterms.
History has shown the only time protests actually do work are when tensions hit the breaking point and violence ensues. (And I’m not saying I want this to happen, my whole premise was that it’s easy to yell at people on the US to rise up, not so easy when “rising up” most likely means committing violence against friends and family)
Arm chair warriors and arm chair pacifists never actually look at what their calls to action really mean. It’s easy to sit in the UK or somewhere else in Europe when it’s not you in the car watching the crash coming in slow motion with no good options