"You wear the hunger to play the oppressor
Like jewels of the crown on your head
No mercy is shown when mercy's not given
Your halo will hang you instead"
- Project 86, MHS
I will make no attempt to make this nice to read. If anything I paint negatively sounds like a description of you, I would encourage you to consider that maybe you are actually doing something negative, and that there's nothing wrong with having done something negative as long as you recognize it and take steps to correct that thing. The fact that I feel like I need to type this paragraph in a post about genocide is absolutely ridiculous, but here we are, in 2019, when the world has ended and been replaced with a morbid satire that's so messed up that even I couldn't have come up with it.
I'm quite beyond sick and tired of reading and hearing people's half-baked opinions about the border and immigration. I'm going to explain something regarding the ridiculous garbage that a lot of glue-eating dipshits are trying to spread around the internet because they are either fools, or they need someone to demonize in order to make people ignore their own wrongdoings.
The camps that we are holding migrants in at the border are not extermination camps. They are not Auschwitz reborn. They do, however, meet the definition of concentration camps. An extermination camp is a type of concentration camp, but not all concentration camps are extermination camps.
This is pre-kindergarten level reasoning, and if you can't follow it, then you have bigger things to worry about than immigration law and definitions. And here are some of those definitions:
"a place where large numbers of people are kept as prisoners in extremely bad conditions, especially for political reasons" - Cambridge Dictionary
"a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc." - Dictionary.com
"Concentration camp, internment centre for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment" - Encyclopædia Britannica
"a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities" - Google Definition
And how it's history lesson time, because we seem to forget it:
The Holocaust didn't start with extermination camps, either. Those only came to be after years of oppressing and dehumanizing those that the Nazis saw as subhuman or otherwise unwelcome.
The Dachau camp opened in March of 1933 and held political prisoners, and in April of 1933 the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed and excluded Jews from the civil service. In July of 1933, the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was passed, which resulted in 400,000 people being sterilized. In November of 1938, Kristallnacht happened and tens of thousands of Jews had their shops and synagogues raided and damaged, and 30,000 Jews were sent to Buchenwald, Dachau, and Saschenhausen.
None of those camps were designed as extermination camps.
The Nazis painted Jews, Slavs, the Roma, Africans, homosexuals, priests, and anyone else they didn't like as less than human, or as problem causers, or criminals, and they used that as justification to imprison them even though they had not committed a crime. It was still the Holocaust, and it was still deplorable and horrific, and those who participated in it and allowed it have not been remembered fondly by history.
You do not have to be literally rounding up and gassing people for what you're running to be a concentration camp, nor for what you are doing to be, at best, morally questionable.
Additionally, just because one person is shown following procedure properly, it does not mean that there are not other people who are not following that procedure. As much as some people would like to tell you otherwise, humans are not a hivemind, and things can vary between times and places, and both of those situations can be perfectly valid and real. One's good behavior does not excuse another's bad behavior, nor the opposite.
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Now, while I'm here, let me go ahead and dispel two common concerns people have with immigration and the border:
1. Immigrants and undocumented immigrants increase crime rates
The FBI has performed studies that show that in areas with more immigrants, violent crime has not increased, and property crime seems to have slightly decreased. There is no evidence of any link between immigrants and increased crime, and there's no reason there would be.
If you're an undocumented immigrant who came to America to escape your own country's problems, why would you do things that would be more likely to have you found and have you deported? And even ignoring that, there's no logical reason to assume that immigrants would commit more crimes.
The burden of proof in this case should be from the party making the claim that immigrants increase crime. If you are to make the claim that something causes something else, you should have some form of proof for it, else you will be laughed out of the room like the idiot that you are.
Violent crimes as a whole have actually been steadily declining over the last few decades. The internet, 24/7 news cycles, and people with an agenda make it seem like there's far more crime than there actually is, simply because you can see it all happening in real time.
2. Illegal immigration from Mexico/South America is on the rise
According to the US government and various other studies, illegal imigration has been consistently falling since the early 2000s, with no indication of a current or impending upward trend, and illegal alien population as a whole has been steadily declining as well.
The idea that there are constantly thousands of people storming the border and trying to make their way across is an absurd fantasy scenario that has been created to push an agenda and create fear.
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If you're getting all your information regarding this situation from Fox News and PragerU and you're actually believing them without question, then I have a thousand bridges to sell you.
Facts don't care about your feelings, so start using your brain and stop getting up in arms about things before you research them, stop accepting the first thing you're told about a situation that reinforces your bias, stop feeling the need to defend people just because you perceive them as being on your own side.
Learn to put away your own biases and look at things realistically, objectively, and scientifically, lest you end up becoming something far worse than an idiot.
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