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They're definitely concentration camps but I don't think this is a good way to draw the comparison, you could easily do the same side by side with FEMA camps (temporary housing) after a natural disaster. Something that the conspiracy oriented people have been doing for a long while.
Let's have a close up of it as a comparison, not just one of the roofs. There's just better ways to do this.
there's videos of the inside, which is rows and rows of cots of three in a stack, separated by chain link fencing, no amenities or windows, posted gleefully by people like Benny Johnson (who is a Maga psycho)
Yeah I saw the video and pictures a little bit after I commented and I think taking that kind of thing and putting it side by side with Auschwitz is a much better side by side.
Also it's cots of 2, just normal bunk beds, not 3. 3 was what it was like down in El Salvador. Not that that matters much but yeah.
definitions:
prisons hold prisoners accused or convicted of crimes. the big difference between prisons and concentration camps is scale and homogeneity - camps are bigger and have one kind of prisoner.
gulags hold political prisoners but aren't as big as concentration camps. kinda Soviet-specific.
reeducation camps hold masses of political prisoners with the goal of indoctrinating them with some ideology. the Xinjiang camps for the Uighurs are an example.
concentration camps are mass prisons for political prisoners - usually prisoners of war or ethnic minorities. most Nazi camps, along with the Japanese internment camps, were concentration camps.
death camps are concentration camps used for mass murder/genocide. Auschwitz was the major Nazi death camp for the Holocaust, though there were a few others.
refugee camps are mass temporary shelters. you're allowed to leave. FEMA camps and various UN camps are good examples.
Alligator Auschwitz is a concentration camp because it's 1) massive, 2) full of the same type of prisoner (ethnic minority migrants), 3) who can't leave. it's not yet a death camp, but most Nazi camps weren't death camps (they centralized that!)
I mean thanks for the information that I already knew. I don't quite understand the point of your comment though cause we agree on this, that it's a concentration camp.
Edit: I was talking about using aerial photos for the comparison being bad not comparing the current concentration camp that was just built in Florida to other concentration camps being bad. In case that's your misunderstanding of what I was talking about.