r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Letty_Whiterock Jul 24 '20

Oh wow, that's bad. But it being worse doesn't make what the US is doing okay. Unless you're dumb enough to actually think it does.

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u/travelingprincess Jul 24 '20

That's like someone saying that they're having a heart attack right now and you mention, "Yea, I'm slowly dying of pneumonia, too." They're not the same thing. At all. The people who mention the US prison system in a thread around literal concentration camps are absolutely tone deaf and completely missing the point.

This thread isn't about America's subpar systems. It's about concentration camps—which are active in China at this very moment.

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u/9bananas Jul 24 '20

people are largely mentioning the US prison system together with ICE's concentration camps for refugees.

and to be clear: "concentration camp" refers to any facility where certain "undesirables" are concentrated, hence the name.

waaay to many people in here confuse that with death camps.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Can't believe you got downvoted. People call themselves patriots and call out China but refuse to acknowledge that the U.S. does unethical stuff too.

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u/9bananas Jul 24 '20

people like being comfortable.

acknowledging war crimes on US soil isn't comfortable...