silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1784arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1778arrow-down1external-linkDon’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.www.msnbc.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square86fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·18 hours 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-up7·edit-212 hours 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-squareTlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 hours 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.
Most “untoward” things become more well known from their euphemisms. This is just a rare non-sex case.