It's not that hard - Mander

::: spoiler alt text Screenshot from rosypiriani @ instagram: Stop calling Gaza an “open air prison.” Prisons are filled with convicted criminals. Prisons have food. Prisons have water. Prisons have electricity. Prisons have medical treatment. Gaza is not a prison; it is a concentration camp. :::

I understand the sentiment but

Prisons are filled with convicted criminals.

Prisons have food.

Prisons have water.

Prisons have electricity.

Prisons have medical treatment.

Almost all of these are untrue in prisons across the world. And, if I’m being an “um ackchully” contrarian, they were true for the Nazi concentration camps.

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si does it make gaza more like a prison, or prison more like concentration camps gaza?
In nazi camps people were starved, and medical care was equal to being experimented on without consent. And then, people were just killed off at will. Additionally, people were living in constant fear in these camps.
None of what you said is wrong but it also doesn’t contradict anything I said

Ahm no actually. The prisinors had a calorie intake of about 800 calories per day (some sources claim 1100 to 1300 calories but that doesn’t fit my narrative) while working the entire day. Theft was a regular occurrence. So sometimes you would have even less than that.

A common result of that was diarrhoea. Because sanitary facilities were usually only added after years the prisoners slept in diarrhoea drenched beds. The medical “care” wich was also often added only very late and according to the buchenwalde memorial “only because of extreme pressure” were used as an opportunity to kill prisoners by injection.

Most camp prisoners were not what I would call criminals. The common categorisation charts list political enemies, Jews, homosexuals (most of the time only male homosexuals), jehovas witnesses and Asocials (people that did not work).

Unfortunately I don’t know anything specific about the drinking water situation, but the memorial buchenwalde as well as mittelwek-dora and ausschwitz state that water was sparse.

You could have picked any example of concentration camps to make your pointless argument, but you chose to talk about the nastiest crime in human history.

So what you’re saying is that they had food, medical care, and were convicted of breaking the arbitrary race/political laws of Nazi Germany. I never said the Nazis provided a healthy amount of anything

Holy shit shut up. You know what the initial tweet was supposed to mean. If there where to be literally no food in Gaza then Palestinians would all be dead before they could reproduce.

And again in what way would you say that the prisoners were “legally” detained. I hope you are aware that almost all camps were concentration camps and not eradication camps. All my sources exept for ausschwitz are concentration camps. Do you think that people were not killed in concentration camps?

It may be “historically false” to claim that no food physically existed in and around any concentration camp, but it is reasonable to assume that the average person understands the meaning behind “there was no food”.