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I do wish folks would stop using "alligator alcatraz".
It is a concentration camp.
It is not intended as a form of punishment or deterrence for criminals. It is intended as a means of removing humans the government does not like from society.
It's not a joke, it's not a meme, it's not a t-shirt.
It's a concentration camp.
"Alligator Auschwitz" is a much better gloss.
Auschwitz was an actual concentration camp where people were slaughtered and murdered. If you believe that the Everglades "holding facility" is indeed a concentration camp, then the gloss fits. I don't take my cues from corporate right-wing media, anyway.
Very, very, very important observation.
... something like:
Stop calling the russian assault/invasion on Ukraine, a "special opperation"
I don't quite get the whole US discussion about it, which seems to imply that a very large number of people find the name "Alligator Alcatraz" amusing or fun, so a harsher name is required.
It's already a very, very harsh name!
Alligator Austwitz.
never use the words of the enemy
I'm told by some respondents that "alligator auschwitz" is better.
1) Why are you fucking meme-ing concentration camps?
2) Why you think everybody knows what Auschwitz was?
3) Why I spozed to think you know the difference between Auschwitz and, say, Theresienstadt? Why I spozed to think you know who even invented concentration camps?
I ain't lookin' to be clever and cool, and I am definitely not looking to be funny. I'm lookin' to tell the simple and plain truth.
I think there's a legitimate case here. See what you think:
1) a concentration camp is really being built, memes spread and persist effectively, so meme'ing the concentration camp is an effective way to counter the lie that the camp is a prison.
2) because of the scale of WW2. This may be a mistake. Perhaps too many people have forgotten.
3) doesn't matter. The popular knowledge is that Auschwitz was a concentration camp, and alliteration helps the meme. The Spanish invented CCs.
2) *Most* Americans aren't going to know either, I'll give you that.
3) Yes, definitely intentionally, and that is why a clever assonant meme is just more of the same, only on "our" "side" instead of "their" "side". Inevitably, when I pick up the enemy's weapons I become the new enemy.
Theresienstadt is/was a part of Auschwitz, and was also the name of a ghetto in Czechoslovakia, I think. This is Mastodon, not Twitter. Why do you suppose your audience is so ill-educated about the holocaust? I’m not in favor of giving a concentration camp a cute name, but when government officials are naming it Alligator Alcatraz, calling it out as Alligator Auschwitz seems apt.
#antifa #AntiFascist
There's more important shit than internet memes.
me: I don't think we should be making memes about concentration camps.
bros: This is a much better concentration camp meme!
Every single day I am reminded of how our educational systems have failed at building reading comprehension.
Strictly from an abundance of caution, I will have another beer.
One beer should never be allowed to get lonely. 🙂
She has other relevant videos too as an expert on global concentration camps.
I don't see many stopping, which bothers me.
And calling it "Alligator Auschwitz" is just NO. FUCK NO.
It's the Florida concentration camp.
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