Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 1 year agoDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1201arrow-down12cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.canews@hexbear.netusa@lemmy.mlpolitics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1199arrow-down1external-linkDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 1 year agomessage-square14linkfedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.canews@hexbear.netusa@lemmy.mlpolitics@lemmy.world
minus-squareTanis Nikana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·1 year agoWe shouldn’t use any of the branding the nazis have provided. It’s the Everglades concentration camp.
minus-squarePhilipTheBucket@ponder.catlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoOne of the few new things the current crop of fascists have invented is a way to make all this horror sound fun and harmless by the use of mean humor. So, yes, don’t call it that. I agree.
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minus-squarepelespirit@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down5·1 year agoI 100% disagree. It’s catchy, it’s exactly the same, and gives you a picture in your head instantly.
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minus-squaremadlian@lemmy.cafeBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoI agree. As fun as it is to say, it puts a bit of humor into a humorless situation. No one would laugh if someone said German-Jew-Barbecue.
minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year ago no one would laugh You sweet summer child
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoBut it helps to have a marketing slogan to get others to understand that this is a bad thing. They built a facility for people to go and die in. Might as well call it Auschwitz.
We shouldn’t use any of the branding the nazis have provided. It’s the Everglades concentration camp.
One of the few new things the current crop of fascists have invented is a way to make all this horror sound fun and harmless by the use of mean humor.
So, yes, don’t call it that. I agree.
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Why?
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I 100% disagree. It’s catchy, it’s exactly the same, and gives you a picture in your head instantly.
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I agree. As fun as it is to say, it puts a bit of humor into a humorless situation. No one would laugh if someone said German-Jew-Barbecue.
You sweet summer child
But it helps to have a marketing slogan to get others to understand that this is a bad thing. They built a facility for people to go and die in. Might as well call it Auschwitz.