silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1882arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1874arrow-down1external-linkDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-24 days agoNo. Camp means encampment. Which refers to temporary or light shelter, usually for a group. And the term “concentration camp” is from the 1800s.
minus-squareSpaceShort@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoConcentration camp did indeed start as a euphemism but it’s not the “camp” part that was but the “concentration” part.
No.
Camp means encampment. Which refers to temporary or light shelter, usually for a group. And the term “concentration camp” is from the 1800s.
Concentration camp did indeed start as a euphemism but it’s not the “camp” part that was but the “concentration” part.