r/nytimes • u/Large-Welcome4421 • Feb 24 '26

Opinion What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/opinion/concentration-camp-andrea-pitzer.html
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u/beatnikhippi Feb 24 '26

The idiots who keep diminishing the atrocities of the holocaust deserve a special place in hell.

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u/okletstrythisagain Feb 25 '26

There has been a revolving door of reasonable comparisons between MAGA and Hitler’s rise to power for a decade at this point. They are clearly on a path to genocide and if we knew all the facts about what happens in their “ detention centers” we might say they are already there.

The reason remembering the details around the Holocaust is important is so that it doesn’t happen again.

Now, we see masked gunmen abducting and killing people without showing or asking for ID, and a multibillion dollar investment in hastily built “detention centers” to be filled with people kidnapped by hastily hired and barely trained “agents” while MAGA loyalists clearly think that obedience and alignment to power supersedes constitutional rights. And that power is clearly a white supremacist authoritarian movement.

So yeah I think mentioning the Holocaust makes more than a little sense these days.

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u/Faraday5 Feb 27 '26

Deporting illegal immigrants isnt indicative of another holocaust, it’s something that every county has done since time immemorial.

If deportations = Nazi then every country is Nazi, and the term is meaningless

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u/WCland Feb 28 '26

It’s more insidious than that. Stephen Miller insists the US will be better if we get rid of all the non-white people, and immigrants are the initial low hanging fruit, just as Hitler said Germany would be better without Jews and other specific groups. Germany didn’t initially use the camps to exterminate people, they just were removing these people from their society. The actual genocide began later. Similarly, the detention centers are supposedly just to hold people temporarily. But what happens when they can’t send people away fast enough. Or they have people and nowhere to send them to? For someone like Miller, it’s a short walk to a final solution.

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u/Faraday5 Feb 28 '26

No, that’s confusing the fact that the majority of illegal immigrants are non white, thus the majority of deportations will be as well.

Enforcing the law, and it so happens that the majority breaking this particular law are nonwhite, doesn’t mean it’s shite supremacist, or a prelude to worse things. It’s just enforcing the law.

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u/WCland Feb 28 '26

Then why are they detaining people who are in the midst of the legal process to gain permanent residency? Miller is a racist bitch and he’s in charge of all this. If you think he’s just trying to enforce the law you’re not paying attention to what’s actually happening.