• pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    261·
    8 hours ago

    Look it makes sense to concentrate them…into camps.

    And the more that I think about it, militarized camps sounds ominous.

    How about a friendlier name, like concentration camps.

    They’re just like summer camp, but you where you learn to concentrate more better.

    Ah ha! Nailed it:

    The Better Camps for More Concentration

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      54 minutes ago

      It’s pretty interesting how “concentration camp” used to just mean “a camp where people were grouped together”. It wasn’t necessarily pleasant, but in many cases it was effectively a relatively nice prison. Then, it became a euphemism for an extermination camp. The Nazis pretended they were just grouping people together in a camp, when in reality the aim was to kill everyone there. That euphemism tainted the original meaning, so now when people hear “concentration camp” they think of the Nazi extermination camps.

      Technically, Guantanamo Bay probably qualifies as a concentration camp, but I bet they are very careful not to ever use that term.

      • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        40 minutes ago

        Where are you getting your history from? Because I imagine the Cubans and Boers would disagree, and those are two of the earliest, if not the first uses of what we consider to be concentration camps.

        They havs always used to imprison civilian non-combatants, and the only benchmark by which some were simply “not very pleasant”, is if you compare every other example to the worst examples, which were the Nazi concentration camps.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 hours ago

        That’s going to be on the gate of the camps for the homeless and welfare recipients lazy.

      • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        Dude, they mostly speak Spanish, not German…But yes, I agree, that would make a great motto for:

        The Better Camps for More Concentration

        I’m thinking we put a sign up at the gates that reads:

        El Trabajo te Hace Libre

        Anywho, now we’re cooking with gas.

        Thanks for the assist!