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Historical correction: no one is saying the US is gassing kids, that's confusion about what "concentration camp" means. Not every concentration camp is a Nazi death camp. Anytime you gather up the population in camps to keep control of them is a concentration camp (that's what the "concentration" part means). They were used by the British in the Boer War, by the Spanish in Cuba, and by the US in the Japanese internment.

The current US refugee camps may qualify, because the point is to end the previous policy of letting them free until their hearings - thus, concentration in the classic sense. On the other hand, there is a legitimate legal process for getting out eventually; in that sense they're more like ordinary prisons.

Anyway, take your own chill pill first.



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