{"id":4261,"date":"2019-06-19T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:17:07","slug":"aoc-and-concentration-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4261","title":{"rendered":"AOC and &#8220;Concentration Camps&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, <em>yes, they are by any reasonable definition &#8220;concentration camps.&#8221;<\/em> A concentration camp is any prison camp, usually a makeshift of flimsy one, in which people are detained <em>en masse,<\/em> often in substandard conditions, for an indefinite period time, and without any sort of formal process of criminal conviction. <em>A concentration camp is not necessarily an extermination camp.<\/em> Germany built its first concentration camp, Dachau, shortly after Hitler took power. It wasn&#8217;t until approximately eight years later that the wholesale slaughter began.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the whole brouhaha over AOC&#8217;s (factual) claim shows what a shrewd politician and effective propagandist AOC is. In making her claim, she has successfully managed to shift the public dialogue to talking about the camps. Every time a Trumpist snowflake takes umbrage over AOC&#8217;s politically incorrect language violating his safe space, its point is being served: the camps are being talked about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, yes, they are by any reasonable definition &#8220;concentration camps.&#8221; A concentration camp is any prison camp, usually a makeshift of flimsy one, in which people are detained en masse, often in substandard conditions, for an indefinite period time, and without any sort of formal process of criminal conviction. A concentration camp is not necessarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}