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It Takes a Village to Separate a Family

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When Mike Godwin came up with Godwin's law he just "wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler to think a bit harder about the Holocaust."

Systematic separation of children from parents as a matter of policy does ring some alarm bells.

The words being used as well. I recall that in the preparation for the Rwandan genocide, the victim group was likened to vermin to dehumanise them (cockroaches, if I recall).

Mike Godwin:

> By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you.

https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/896884949634232320?s=1...

Just shows that Mike Godwin isn't immune to his own law either. Everyone's bound to make a dumb Nazi comparison at one point or another.

Is it really a dumb comparison when it involves literal concentration camps?

Soviet Union also had concentration camps, Nazis don't have a monopoly on them.

So did the US, including at the same time the Nazis did, but also regularly, for a number of different populations, starting nearly a century before there was a Nazi Party.

Right, so there's a lot of horrific comparisons you could make. That doesn't mean the nazi comparison is invalid.

US immigration detention centers are now listed as concentration camps. It’s also interesting a number of them privately-owned (ie GEO Group, etc.) and also that many businesses, per article, enable their existence for blood money.

It’s the opposite of virtue-signaling if you live and work for what’s right, not out of what’s most expedient or wins popularity points, but out of integrity. Too few people these days have the courage to think deeply and act consistently regarding the big issues impact of their choices of consumption, associations and work income. (Focusing too much on tiny issues would exclude everyone.)

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