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And I'm trying to explain to you that it's not a "misunderstanding" - the US is hardly unique in using euphemisms and indirect language to downplay/distance itself from its actions. The "internment camps" Japanese Americans were held in were concentration camps, and frankly it's absurd to expect anybody else to pander to one's euphemisms for human rights abuses - the right thing to do is to consistently call it out no matter how uncomfortable it makes people, "American context" be damned. After all, we don't (for example) have much concern for the "Turkish context" when talking about the Armenian genocide either.

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FWIW, I am not arguing for using the term “internment camp”. But the term “concentration camp” to describe whatever is happening at ICE detention centers doesn’t make sense. People are not being starved or worked to death, they are not being gassed, and they are not being put into ovens. And those things are what “concentration camp” means in America.