Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/immigration-alligator-alcatraz-concentration-camp-rcna216874

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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Alligator Auschwitz works for that. Someone called it that last week.

tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y (9 replies)

We shouldn’t use any of the branding the nazis have provided. It’s the Everglades concentration camp.

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

One of the few new things the current crop of fascists have invented is a way to make all this horror sound fun and harmless by the use of mean humor.

So, yes, don’t call it that. I agree.

floo@retrolemmy.com · 6 pts · 1y
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Why?

floo@retrolemmy.com · 17 pts · 1y (5 replies)
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (4 replies)

I 100% disagree. It's catchy, it's exactly the same, and gives you a picture in your head instantly.

floo@retrolemmy.com · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)
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madlian@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I agree. As fun as it is to say, it puts a bit of humor into a humorless situation. No one would laugh if someone said German-Jew-Barbecue.

Feyd@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y

no one would laugh

You sweet summer child

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 1y

But it helps to have a marketing slogan to get others to understand that this is a bad thing. They built a facility for people to go and die in. Might as well call it Auschwitz.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 1y

Alligator Auschwitz

Mayve a neon sign at the entrace "Deportation will set you free!"

Wolf314159@startrek.website · 11 pts · 1y

We should call it Camp DeSantis. I know it's part of a broader federal policy, but I feel local political pressure is the right choice in a republic. The governor is letting this happen. And also because, fuck that guy.

Zier@fedia.io · 11 pts · 1y

I prefer to call it a "Racist Torture Facility".

4grams@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I’m convinced this place is designed to kill people. I mean, they defunded noaa, cancelled FEMA, and built a hastily constructed, non-storm rated facility and dropped it in hurricane alley. It’s already flooded once.

venoft@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Ah so that's their play. Weaponized negligence.

Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

I'm going to go with "U.S. Dachau". Descriptive timing and initial stated intent for the camp in its relationship to nazi Germany. No cute branding, just straight attribution. I was thinking of going with "Republican..." but that would only blame half the parties; its the US flag flying overhead after all.