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'This is an Internment Camp': Lawmakers Horrified by Inhumane Conditions in 'Alligator Alcatraz'
(www.commondreams.org)
Alligator Auschwitz
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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Even that is way too kind. The whole jolly "Alligator" imagery is part of their shtick. I think "the Everglades Concentration Camp" / "Ochopee Internment Camp" or something.
They know the power of language and use it accordingly, so should we.
I mean, "internment camp" is just an accurate description regardless of conditions. It is a camp where civilians are imprisoned or "interned" without formal charges or sentencing by the standard criminal justice system. That it's an internment camp isn't even a debatable point.
It's the euphemism they use to avoid "concentration camps", which is what these are due to the awful conditions. Those have an even worse reputation because they often turn out to be death camps. Weirdly, if you put people in inhumane conditions you necessarily dehumanize them, and at some point you just start killing them rather than keep an increasing number of people you don't see as people alive in increasingly poor conditions.