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.
For me, it’s not about creating a meme. It’s redirecting THEIR attempt at making Alligator Alcatraz cool, make it a meme. To me, calling it Auschwitz is an anti-meme — see this thing you are trying to make cool? It’s evil, as evil as what the Nazis did.
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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