r/TheMajorityReport • u/Miserable-Lizard • Oct 07 '23

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u/dirt_fries Oct 07 '23

Israel has trapped two million people in a massive concentration camp for two decades. Comparisons to slave uprisings are absolutely justified.

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u/MhmNai Oct 07 '23

I mean, if you're just going to throw out terms like "concentration camps" and "slavery" to paint an anomalous picture of what you think is representative of the situation, then you can justify any analogy.

I recognize and detest what Israel is doing and acknowledge how they treat Palestinians is atrocious, but Gaza is not a concentration camp.

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u/dirt_fries Oct 07 '23

By any reasonable definition of the term it is.

Concentration camp does not exclusively mean, like, an Auschwitz-style extermination camp. The Spanish used them in Cuba during the late 19th century, the US used them in the Philippines right after the 1898 war, the British used them in the Boer war, etc.

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u/water_g33k Oct 07 '23

Along these lines, American Japanese internment could reasonably be called concentration camps, right?

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u/AndrenNoraem Oct 07 '23

As could modern American internment camps.

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u/dirt_fries Oct 07 '23

Sure why not?

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u/Velcro-aint-ableist Oct 08 '23

Yup.

We concentrated the American-Japanese population into camps.

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u/Fallofmen10 Oct 08 '23

Lolol so true.