I'll admit that in common usage it's pretty much a distinction without a difference... but given the lack of complaints by Trump supporters about everyone else's use of the term "concentration camp," it's more than a little creepy that they might be thinking of it as an acceptable euphemism for what they're really after.
FloridaGOP using the expression "one-way ticket" with regard to being sent to Alligator Alcatraz gives me the impression that using "extermination camp" instead of "concentration camp" wouldn't exactly be hyperbolic.
Cool. But does that effect the digression I followed? The url I provided still applies, doesn't it?
(Uncertainty has bound my ghost to this world until I clear up every damn little detail, to the most trivial picks of the nits. In other words, 'Hi TD, I'm gonna be annoying you for a while again.')
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I'll admit that in common usage it's pretty much a distinction without a difference... but given the lack of complaints by Trump supporters about everyone else's use of the term "concentration camp," it's more than a little creepy that they might be thinking of it as an acceptable euphemism for what they're really after.
FloridaGOP using the expression "one-way ticket" with regard to being sent to Alligator Alcatraz gives me the impression that using "extermination camp" instead of "concentration camp" wouldn't exactly be hyperbolic.
Cool. But does that effect the digression I followed? The url I provided still applies, doesn't it? (Uncertainty has bound my ghost to this world until I clear up every damn little detail, to the most trivial picks of the nits. In other words, 'Hi TD, I'm gonna be annoying you for a while again.')