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Ami Fields-Meyer
@fieldsmeyer.com

If I were a different person, maybe I’d share some of the nasty responses I got last spring when - amid the CECOT flights - @andreapitzer.bsky.social @chenoweth.bsky.social and I put on a seminar on concentration camps. Outrage over “offensive” and “overblown” comparisons. Wish they’d been right.

ash.harvard.eduConcentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash CenterGovernments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

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Dennis D. McDonald
@ddmcd.bsky.social

Our most immediate focus must be on rooting out the individuals who enable and implement such programs. In the future though we and our children and grandchildren must reckon with the reality that this is now the image of the US that is -- intentionally -- being projected around the world.

Apple
@hardciderblues.bsky.social

By now we should all realize that when the right-wingnuts attack someone, it is typically because that person is correct; otherwise, they remain silent.