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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow about concentration camps for racists?
Okay, too severe. Besides, you wouldn't want to collect that much lowlife together in one place, the smell would be horrendous. Think what it would do to insurance rates in nearby communities and the depreciation of homes. Perhaps to harsh, or maybe not harsh enough for these mutants from humanity. It is impossible to describe these dregs of the earth without the use of words this bad. And it all stems from an organization originating from the South, where I was raised, the Ku Klux Klan.
This all comes from an article I read on CNN by Rob Crilly, who went to a KKK rally in Roxboro, NC, where the Klan was staging a rally that almost no one went to. They called it a kalvacade, organized by the group's Imperial Kommander, Amanda Barker, designed as a victory for the election of Donald Trump. Remember that basket of deplorables, apparently it overflows in North Carolina? Crilly commented that in Roxboro, he had seen "...the future of the alt-right."
And yes, come January 20, of 2017, the alt-right will reside in the Donald Trump White House in the form of Steve Bannon, former head of Breitbart News, a known racist, woman hater and anti-semtic. Bannon will be at the top of the totem pole in the Trump administration as the chief strategist, no doubt guiding policy in the alt-right direction which is to establish white nationalism in the United States. And Donald Trump regularly spewed during the election he would represent all people.
It is unimaginable to me how the American public made it possible for a man like Donald Trump to become President. I realize that concentration camps for these uneducated rednecks is a stretch, but i wonder how many out there today would relish the opportunity to get as far away from these lunatics as possible. I know I would.
Passionate & Progressive
ileus
(15,396 posts)Maybe we could "lease" or hire China to reform them on their soil so no one would ever know what happened.
Basically send these scumbags away for a long time to get a good communist upbringing.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)It came from a now demolished synagogue in Slovakia listing all the local Jews deported by the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party/Nazis.
13 of those names were family who were deported to concentration camps. Not one survived.
I think Koo Koo Klanners and Neo-Nutzis are deluded and suffer from a mental sickness but don't deserve to be locked away in utter deprivation like the inmates of Dachau, Theresienstadt, Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz and other camps were.
To suggest that, even in jest, trivializes what those people went through.
yuiyoshida
(41,871 posts)The Japanese internment camps during WWII.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Another great abomination in the history of mankind.
yuiyoshida
(41,871 posts)people often forget that,.. いいよ、 だいじょうぶ
しょうがない
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)People who were classified as feebleminded or having other mental/physical disabilities were the first to go. Both in the US (involuntary sterilization) and in Germany.
I know that's not what you recommend, but historical references can trip you up sometimes.
RegexReader
(416 posts)Violence has a bad habit of breeding violence. And do you really want to start a fight with a bunch of people that have been fed paranoid delusions for years about Democrats and the Left wanting to put them on trains to FEMA camps. Yeah, that'll go over really well. Then they will return the favor plus most likely make you squeal like a pig before getting off the train.
Just getting peacefully out seems more and more like the best alternative.
RedWedge
(618 posts)Not to mention your utter lack of historical understanding. The KKK invented racism? Pretending racism is some isolated backwards trait that only "mutants" possess is ignorant and, in the end, dangerous.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)They could be given jobs in the country digging for deposits other than coal.
Their employer will have a monopoly on a local store that sets prices so that the employees are always in debt, not allowing them to leave until the debt is paid.
I'm kidding, of course!
sarisataka
(18,908 posts)that if you understood it you would self delete.
Anyone claiming to be progressive should never suggest establishing concentration camps even as hyperbole or in jest. No one claiming to be human should do so either.
haele
(12,692 posts)I understand frustrated whistling past the graveyard type of comments, but I'd rather not give them more ammunition. Not a matter of "going high while they're going low", it's a matter of not falling into the "might makes right" crap trap where you have the potential of granting them a moral high ground. The internment camps where wrong when FDR signed off on it. Let the spirit of the law take care of them; they have the right to stew in their cowardly hatred all they care to, but if they can't gain anything by it - not recognition, reputation or even derisive ridicule, just a "knock it off or you go to jail" for their actions when they do cross the line same as anyone else - the majority of them will eventually abandon acting out that way to feel special about themselves and revert to sullen resentment they can't get their way.
Besides, that much concentrated fear, hatred, and refusal to grow up is like having too many punk teenagers hanging around doing nothing. They're going to eventually fight their way out and cause more trouble Better to keep them where they can be monitored and subtly maneuvered into the obscurity of history.
Haele
Generator
(7,770 posts)I can't call out Obama as weak but people can start threads about putting people in concentration camps? Don't get the values here on DU. Oh yes-it's only about voting. Humanity-shrug.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)But not now, though. Only when the "right" people are in charge should the government have this power.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,229 posts)Next question.
demmiblue
(36,914 posts)Good dog, DU has become really gullible.