Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

UPDATE: previously:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113919436011241048

@Blueteamsherpa

@blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa This is also true for the earlier, actual, genuine* concentration camps, like the ones in South Africa during the Boer War. Almost all deaths were due to disease, malnutrition and exposure.

*as in: concentrating the civilian population away from guerilla fighters during an actual war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_camps

Second Boer War concentration camps - Wikipedia

@martinvermeer @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa this is exactly what's happening in Gaza, but without food or water, because the Israelis sealed it.
@Dss @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa Actually it is worse, as it is clearly intentional. A least the South African concentration camps tried to not be too obvious about it.

@Dss @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa The thing is, when you lock up lots of people in a confined space, *you* become responsible for providing them with the necessities of life. And if those people are labeled 'not us' or even 'against us', the temptation is to take that obligation lazily, and soon people start dying like flies. We saw that, e.g., with people incarcerated during and after the Finnish civil war. It's an ugly logic.

Heck, as @mekkaokereke pointed out, it even applies to ordinary criminal incarceration (though I will say that the American gulag is a sui generis):

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/06/26/life_expectancy/

Incarceration shortens life expectancy

Each year in prison takes 2 years off an individual's life expectancy. With over 2.3 million people locked up, mass incarceration has shortened the overall ...

@martinvermeer @Dss @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa @mekkaokereke “when you lock up lots of people in a confined space, *you* become responsible for providing them with the necessities of life. And if those people are labeled 'not us' or even 'against us', the temptation is to take that obligation lazily, and soon people start dying like flies.”

@martinvermeer @Dss @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa The British may not have intentionally tried to kill the Boer women and children, but they certainly didn't try very hard NOT to.

#Inhumanity

@simon_brooke @martinvermeer @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa I don't recall the British troops shelling food queues though.

@Dss @martinvermeer @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa no. Even by the standards of human history, the current #Israeli army is pretty outstandingly evil.

#GazaGenocide

@Dss @martinvermeer @blogdiva @Blueteamsherpa It just blows my mind that a nation founded by a group of people who had this done to them not a century ago could turn around and do the same thing to someone else.

Human beings are not vermin, and should never be treated as such.

@hosford42 @blogdiva @martinvermeer @Dss @Blueteamsherpa only a minority of Zionists had survived the Nazis themselves. And many of those were collaborators, because that’s often exactly how you survived. Some of them had tried to stop Jews being able to flee to anywhere except Palestine.

@blogdiva @hosford42 @BenAveling @martinvermeer @Dss let’s see:

1) refer to Jews as Zionists.
2) blame Jews for the death of Jews by unethical actions.

You sir can go anally insert a long cactus!

@martinvermeer @Dss @blogdiva @hosford42 I didn’t vote for the orange shitgibbon, with the hope that some of this shit would have been stopped.