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Alligator Auschwitz (Original Post) DoBW Jul 2025 OP
I wish we would not use that term. There are just some things that have no comparison and this is one of them. Deuxcents Jul 2025 #1
Legacy enid602 Jul 2025 #6
Why use the right's framing? It sounds flippant. It's a concentration camp in the Everglades. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2025 #2
I agree. Why should the MSM FalloutShelter Jul 2025 #4
We should use this framing YorkRd Jul 2025 #3
I have been referring to it as a Concentration Camp liberal N proud Jul 2025 #5
Stalag 2025 BlueSpot Jul 2025 #7

Deuxcents

(27,682 posts)
1. I wish we would not use that term. There are just some things that have no comparison and this is one of them.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 09:40 PM
Jul 2025

The locals here are saying Gator Gulag but Holocaust and names associated with it are so heinous we should not be renaming anything after. IMO.

enid602

(9,754 posts)
6. Legacy
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 10:18 PM
Jul 2025

It’s even worse when certain countries (including some that really should know better) are following the tried and true forms of eliminating inconvenient ‘others’ in this day and age! How sad that the victims of the previous century should have their precious legacy be befouled by these pikers.

WhiskeyGrinder

(27,227 posts)
2. Why use the right's framing? It sounds flippant. It's a concentration camp in the Everglades.
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 09:46 PM
Jul 2025

FalloutShelter

(14,617 posts)
4. I agree. Why should the MSM
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 09:54 PM
Jul 2025

And we, parrot the right’s sadistic, alliterative, nickname for their CONCENTRATION CAMP?

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