silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agoDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1880arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1872arrow-down1external-linkDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·24 days agoWasn’t “concentration camp” a euphemism, too? I mean, most people know people are not doing any “camping” at such a place, but…still.
minus-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-224 days agoNo. Camp means encampment. Which refers to temporary or light shelter, usually for a group. And the term “concentration camp” is from the 1800s.
minus-squareSpaceShort@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoConcentration camp did indeed start as a euphemism but it’s not the “camp” part that was but the “concentration” part.
minus-squareTlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·24 days agoMost “untoward” things become more well known from their euphemisms. This is just a rare non-sex case.
Wasn’t “concentration camp” a euphemism, too?
I mean, most people know people are not doing any “camping” at such a place, but…still.
No.
Camp means encampment. Which refers to temporary or light shelter, usually for a group. And the term “concentration camp” is from the 1800s.
Concentration camp did indeed start as a euphemism but it’s not the “camp” part that was but the “concentration” part.
Most “untoward” things become more well known from their euphemisms. This is just a rare non-sex case.