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**TeemFilla** · 12-12-2006, 01:11 PM

The use of the phrase "concentration camp" is is not accurate since (as you well know but probably choose to ignore) there were no mass-killings, euthenasia, etc. as there were in the "real" concentration camps found in Germany.

I must respectfully disagree.

Concentration camp
a camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined.

If one refers to the term having to do with it's negative association with Nazi concentration camps of the same name, and then if the aim is to equate acts committed at such a place, then I would agree in that certainly they were not on the same scale.
However, It is wise to make no mistake, at places such as the 27 camps run by the U.S. Government at the time, people died; were abused, and in some cases, tortured, or killed.

So emotionally, I agree with that assessment of the two differing, however semantically, I do not.
They are what they are. What is then done to the groups of people who are concentrated together is another matter entirely.

In the case of America, it is an issue which touches us all even today, and it reminds us how easily our liberties can be stripped away.
Just like it's happening now. But that's perhaps another thread and another forum.

12-12-2006, 01:11 PM	#32
TeemFilla Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 491 Senior Member	The use of the phrase "concentration camp" is is not accurate since (as you well know but probably choose to ignore) there were no mass-killings, euthenasia, etc. as there were in the "real" concentration camps found in Germany. I must respectfully disagree. Concentration camp a camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined. If one refers to the term having to do with it's negative association with Nazi concentration camps of the same name, and then if the aim is to equate acts committed at such a place, then I would agree in that certainly they were not on the same scale. However, It is wise to make no mistake, at places such as the 27 camps run by the U.S. Government at the time, people died; were abused, and in some cases, tortured, or killed. So emotionally, I agree with that assessment of the two differing, however semantically, I do not. They are what they are. What is then done to the groups of people who are concentrated together is another matter entirely. In the case of America, it is an issue which touches us all even today, and it reminds us how easily our liberties can be stripped away. Just like it's happening now. But that's perhaps another thread and another forum.
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