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Stop calling Gaza an “open air prison.”
Prisons are filled with convicted criminals. Prisons have food. Prisons have water. Prisons have electricity. Prisons have medical treatment.
Gaza is not a prison; it is a concentration camp.
I understand the sentiment but
Almost all of these are untrue in prisons across the world.
And, if I’m being an “um ackchully” contrarian, they were true for the Nazi concentration camps.
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In nazi camps people were starved, and medical care was equal to being experimented on without consent. And then, people were just killed off at will. Additionally, people were living in constant fear in these camps.
None of what you said is wrong but it also doesn’t contradict anything I said
Ahm no actually. The prisinors had a calorie intake of about 800 calories per day (some sources claim 1100 to 1300 calories but that doesn’t fit my narrative) while working the entire day. Theft was a regular occurrence. So sometimes you would have even less than that.
A common result of that was diarrhoea. Because sanitary facilities were usually only added after years the prisoners slept in diarrhoea drenched beds. The medical “care” wich was also often added only very late and according to the buchenwalde memorial “only because of extreme pressure” were used as an opportunity to kill prisoners by injection.
Most camp prisoners were not what I would call criminals. The common categorisation charts list political enemies, Jews, homosexuals (most of the time only male homosexuals), jehovas witnesses and Asocials (people that did not work).
Unfortunately I don’t know anything specific about the drinking water situation, but the memorial buchenwalde as well as mittelwek-dora and ausschwitz state that water was sparse.
You could have picked any example of concentration camps to make your pointless argument, but you chose to talk about the nastiest crime in human history.
If you consume zero calories a day, you have no food. If you consume 800 calories a day, you’ve had some food. I never said anything about the quantity or quality of resources given by the Nazis, but the argument that prisoners in the concentration camps had access to no food, no water, no electricity, and were not legally detained is historically false. If we were talking about the death camps, sure I’d agree with you, but not the concentration camps.
This comment is in no way meant to downplay the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Holy shit shut up. You know what the initial tweet was supposed to mean. If there where to be literally no food in Gaza then Palestinians would all be dead before they could reproduce.
And again in what way would you say that the prisoners were “legally” detained. I hope you are aware that almost all camps were concentration camps and not eradication camps. All my sources exept for ausschwitz are concentration camps. Do you think that people were not killed in concentration camps?
It may be “historically false” to claim that no food physically existed in and around any concentration camp, but it is reasonable to assume that the average person understands the meaning behind “there was no food”.
so does it make gaza more like a prison, or prison more like
concentration campsgaza?