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from this description perhaps Ocasio Cortez was absolutely right to call them concentration camps?
I don't intend this to come across in any way condescending, but I am surprised that anybody would doubt AOC calling them concentration camps given what we knew about those camps already. I'm puzzled how anybody could hear her say that, look at the facts and think otherwise.
As a wider observation, and I honestly am not aiming this at anybody on LFGSS, I encounter a lot of people who seem to dismiss what AOC says on account of her gender and age. Let alone her "goddamn commie marxist" politics.
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Yeah she is unfairly dismissed. It’s easier to pick holes in her style of politics and PR than the content of her beliefs or policy proposals so that’s what happens.
The concentration camp comment did wind people up though. She didn’t say these camps are like concentration camps, she called them concentration camps. I suppose she made this distinction deliberately. When I heard her say that I though ‘oh, this is a shame, she’s going for the shock language’ as to me it is all part of the race to the bottom in US political discourse that Trump and Gorka etc love.
Do I blame her, expect different or think she has anything but good intentions... no.
miro_o
Here is that article online. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n18/eliot-weinberger/one-summer-in-america
It’s so incredibly politicised it’s easy to switch off and ignore this but fucking hell, from this description perhaps Ocasio Cortez was absolutely right to call them concentration camps?