Cable news people call them “prison camps” or “Trump prison camps,” but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is:

“[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.”

But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:

“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    18 hours ago

    We need to keep acting like Trump’s biggest failings are liking fast food and stumbling over words.

    Please identify a single person who does this.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      17 hours ago

      No one.

      But him, and his masters, have never given care or concern to truth… Only to what serves their purpose.