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KingCharlemagne

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8. Brilliant response (which really should be its own OP, imo). Guantanamo offends

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:56 AM

Mar 2015

the decent respect of mankind because it violates individual rights of those detained, while the Nazi regime of concentration and death camps transcends traditional bourgeois conceptions of 'individual rights' to plumb the nexus between advanced industrial civilization and genocide. Really not in the same category, imo.

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The nightmare process of the camps [View all] dissentient Mar 2015 OP

If you want hope from the death factories, read Viktor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning". . . Journeyman Mar 2015 #1

Speaking of Arendt, OnyxCollie Mar 2015 #2

One of the successes of Al-Qaeda Turbineguy Mar 2015 #6

I visited Dachu in high school ripcord Mar 2015 #3

I visited there too yeoman6987 Mar 2015 #4

Sounds like Guantanamo. blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #5

As awful as Guantanamo is, the concentration SheilaT Mar 2015 #7

Brilliant response (which really should be its own OP, imo). Guantanamo offends KingCharlemagne Mar 2015 #8

Thank you. SheilaT Mar 2015 #10

not even close. cali Mar 2015 #12

What are you reading, just out of curiosity? - nt KingCharlemagne Mar 2015 #9

My mother-in-law is an Auschwitz survivor, after going through Bergen-Belsen first. GliderGuider Mar 2015 #11

Yes, the point was to cage, work and punish people until their deaths HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #13