America’s Concentration Camps category archive
Turning Blind Eyes 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, H. Colleen Sinclair explores why good people do nothing in the face of bad people doing bad things.
Please just read it, because I fear what I might say were I to write more.
What’s in a Word? 0
A raid by any other name would smell as rancid.
Suffer the Children, One More Time 0
At AL.com, John Archibald writes of our current American dream nightmare. A snippet:
What all this really means is that we are hardly who we say we are. What it really means is that America is not what it claims to be.
The land of the free. The home of the brave. A beacon for the world and the promised land for those in search of opportunity.
Or a bully.
Concentration Camps for Kiddies 0
At The Sacramento Bee, Gil Duran remembers a holocaust survivor who recently passed away and then turns his attention to Donald Trump’s concentration camps for kiddies. Please do give it a read.
An excerpt:
“The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population,” writes Yale Professor Jason Stanley in “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” “By excluding these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, mass imprisonment, and expulsion to, in extreme cases, mass extermination.”
Suffer the Children 0
Your tax dollars at work.
In These Trumpled Times . . . 2
. . . even Highlights Magazine has had enough.
Concentrate on This 0
Esther Cepeda marvels at the apathy towards the barbaric treatment of migrants along our southern border. A snippet:
These frivolous spats effectively overshadow the tough-to-stomach reality that migrants are being penned in cages and locked in freezing-cold holding cells — that is, when they’re not fenced in under bridges and made to sit on the ground in 100-plus degree weather.
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Eladio Bobadilla, an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky, put it this way in a recent post on the Latino Rebels website: “[Conservative] commentators are wrong, both historically and morally. Not only is it historically accurate to call these detention centers concentration camps, but the uproar reveals a curious and cruel irony: Conservatives are more outraged by the terms used to describe the detention camps than they are by the conditions inside them.”
Sacrifices 0
Kimberley A. Johnson wonders how many more must die at the hands of the Trump administration before Americans react.
The Lies of the Land 0
Thom looks back at the State of the Union address; he also notes the irony of Donald Trump’s bringing up Dachau while his administration is putting children on concentration camps.
A Shunning City on a Hill 0
In the Roanoke Times, a descendant of pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower pens a stunning rebuke to the cold-hearted callousness of Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, and by extension, to the administration in which she serves. An excerpt:
Suffer the Children 0
There’s nothing quite like Christmas in Donald Trump’s kiddie koncentration kamps.
“A Nation of Immigrants” 0
Martin W.G. King writes of the conditions inside Donald Trump’s concentration camps for immigrants and asylum seekers. Here’s a bit:
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Trump has created a climate that has encouraged the mistreatment of migrants for his own political gain, and he’s done it, mostly, with impunity.
This is institutionalized cruelty.
Words fail me.
