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Sherida Ryan's avatar

Again, a mirror of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union where the concentration camp and the gulag provided labour for the state.

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Russell McOrmond's avatar

A quote from Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec that may be helpful context:

"Too often we develop myths of innocence, like calling that concentration camp in Florida Alligator Auschwitz, as if there aren't myriad examples of this kind of race-based detention in US history. Hitler was inspired by the US after all, it isn't the other way around."

https://www.thousandworlds.ca/you-g/

The current Trump regime is not the anomaly some people wish it to be, and to confront the real issues requires confronting British North American settler-colonialism generally (consolidated into USA and Canada). All this pointing at individuals, or pointing to governments on other continents, is simply an attempt to move to innocence.

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