@Schafstelze @inthehands So when do they become "Concentration Camps" in your eyes? Even the Nazi system started small and was built up over a number of years:

"The Nazi regime set up its first concentration camp in Dachau in March 1933, barely two months after Hitler’s rise to power. Between 1933 and 1945, Germans built an extensive system of more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites (including ghettos), aiming to imprison and kill “enemies of the state”, which included Jews, Roma and Sinti, Jehovah’s Witnesses, German Communists, Socialists, and homosexuals."

https://www.lbi.org/exhibitions/virtual-exhibition-last-stop-before-the-last-stop/concentration-camps-existed-long-before-hitler-came-to-power/

@inthehands @HollieK72 What we know as CC's is defined by the pictures of Auschwitz. Again, by using the term for Trumps Camps, you WANT to invoke the comparison. When we talk about (actual) CC's, we don't picture forced labour camps (which existed as well) but the extermination camps.

If you can't see the difference, you proof my point that the inflationary use of the word downplays the "original" in the head of people.

@Schafstelze @inthehands

From the OP:

'Please, if you object to the term “concentration camp” right now, clearly identify your bright line for when that term becomes acceptable.'

Not all concentration camps are extermination camps. When I picture concentration camps, it's not "just" the Nazi camps, but also the Russian Gulag system, and I'm also aware of the British Concentration Camps from the Second Boer war. There are more examples in the article I linked. I would call Trump's camps concentration camps, under the following definition:

"A concentration camp is a place where a large number of inmates, often those deemed political enemies or members of ethnic and religious minorities, are confined against their will and under guard, usually without having been charged with a crime. Punitive conditions of internment usually result in a high rate of mortality."

Apparently you object to the term being used now, so where do you draw the line?

@Schafstelze @inthehands From what you explained I take it that you would only call them concentration camps when they become death camps, which is a long way down the line from what the Nazis started with, in 1933. It took them years to get to that point, and even the Nazis differentiated between death camps and normal concentration camps. There were six death camps: Chełmno, Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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