A Democratic congresswoman has given a scathing review of the Trump administrationās so-called āAlligator Alcatrazā in Florida, describing it as an āinternment campā that needs to be āshut the hell down.ā
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Floridaās 25th congressional district, said that pictures of the facility ādonāt do it justiceā and that detainees were being āpacked into cages.ā
On Saturday Florida lawmakers from both parties took a state-arranged tour of the new 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland in the Everglades.
I see it another way.
By the time Auschwitz happened it was already way too late to oppse the Nazi Regime. It was too late to save lifes and prevent tragedy. But at Dachau it wasnāt.
It also makes it seem like this (Donalds Dachau) is the endgame. Like this is the worst they will do. When they will in fact do much worse.
By calling it an Auschwitz, I feel weāre kind of throwing a towel and telling ourselves that the MAGA-Regime is already too powerful. It isnāt. Theyāre only just starting, they can still be stopped. It also makes it seem like this is the height of their tyranny, which it isnāt. Noone should stay at home thinking āwell, it isnāt that badā but instead go to the streets thinking āit mustnāt get worseā
Also we all know that Dachau isnāt āharmlessā in any way, and my comment should be pretty clear that it was awful. Comparing it to dachau isnāt normalizing it, it isnāt disrespectful, because itās what gets closest to it. On the other hands it can be seen as disrespectful to all those who suffered and even perished in Birkenau to be compared to āDonalds Dachauā.
Lastly let me assure you that I am NOT, as implied in your comment, defending the current US-Regime nor normalizing Dachau.