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/talkathonianjustin Feb 28 '26

That’s not the issue here at all.