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Academics Rally Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Over Concentration Camp Comment
MSN News ^ | 6/24/2019 | Katherine Hignett

Posted on 06/24/2019 12:49:01 PM PDT by detective

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Full title: Academics Rally Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Over Concentration Camp Comments: 'She Is Completely Historically Accurate'

Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued to spar with Republicans over her claim that U.S. migrant detention centers are "concentration camps" over the weekend.

Ocasio-Cortez blasted Iowa representative Steve King Sunday after he asked her to visit the site of Nazi death camp Auschwitz with a Holocaust memorial group. Declining his invite, she pointed out King had met with a far-right Austrian group during his own trip to the camp, as The Washington Post noted last October.

Ocasio-Cortez described migrant detention facilities at the southern U.S. border as "concentration camps" during an Instagram live stream June 17. Following up on Twitter, she said the centers "brutalized" migrants with "dehumanizing conditions."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: aoc; holocaust; holocost; newyork; ocasiocortez; theholocaust
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Rachel Ida Buff, a professor of American studies who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told Newsweek Ocasio-Cortez was "absolutely" correct to describe U.S. migrant detention centers as concentration camps.

Buff said criticisms of Ocasio-Cortez are "part of a long-term, right wing campaign against the overwhelming success and popularity of progressive politicians like her, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib."

1 posted on 06/24/2019 12:49:01 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

If they are rallying behind what she said they aren’t really academics.


2 posted on 06/24/2019 12:53:08 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: detective

So is she the lone academic supporting her?


3 posted on 06/24/2019 12:54:06 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: detective

Pitiful.


4 posted on 06/24/2019 12:55:29 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: detective

IOW, doubling down on stupid


5 posted on 06/24/2019 12:56:26 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: detective

Probably. One pastor out of 100,000 supports gay rights, but they get wall to press coverage.


6 posted on 06/24/2019 12:56:45 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

No kidding...

It’s almost scary how incapable of grasping the differences between Concentration Camps, and the border containment centers we run today.

Further, she likened our wall to the Iron Curtain wall.

These people are devoid of pertinent knowledge, and the abilit to assess issues.

Well, they are Leftists after all.


7 posted on 06/24/2019 12:56:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: detective

All camps are concentration camps

The purpose of a camp is to concentrate some element of the population


8 posted on 06/24/2019 12:57:41 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: Robert DeLong

I heard the guy who played Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, agrees with her.

And he supposedly has gravitas and authority on this, because his family was sent to internment camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II.


9 posted on 06/24/2019 12:58:18 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: detective
97 percent of scientists/academics agree with global warming/AOC.

I see a pattern.

10 posted on 06/24/2019 1:00:17 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: Robert DeLong

“So is she the lone academic supporting her?”

There are several listed.

Read the article.


11 posted on 06/24/2019 1:00:56 PM PDT by detective
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Liberals are holocaust deniers.

These liberals, like all holocaust deniers, imply that the Nazi concentration camps were just temporary detainment centers for people who broke the laws, instead of human death processing centers where millions of innocent people were murdered.

Liberals are holocaust deniers.

12 posted on 06/24/2019 1:02:35 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: bert

The best summers of my youth were spent at Concentration Camp! It was wonderful... I was concentrated with others of my age, and we played softball, ate, slept, swam.


13 posted on 06/24/2019 1:02:38 PM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks detective. I used to speculate that Occasional Cortex was a Trump operative, but I've gone back to my original thesis.

14 posted on 06/24/2019 1:03:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: C210N

Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
Here I am at Camp Concentrata
Camp Concentrata is very entertaining
And they say we’ll have some fun if it stops raining


15 posted on 06/24/2019 1:03:38 PM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: detective
This is no different than if they were to defend a liberal's use of the swastika as really being an old Sanskrit symbol of good fortune and well being.

History has moved on from that definition, and the same is true for concentration camps.

And we're not yet ready to move on from the meaning of "never forget."

-PJ

16 posted on 06/24/2019 1:05:07 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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97 percent of scientists/academics agree with global warming/AOC. I see a pattern.

and 97% of those were educated in the public schools...hmm

17 posted on 06/24/2019 1:05:21 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: detective
U.S. migrant detention centers are "concentration camps"

Really?

Will we be informed when the U.S. begins making lampshades and book covers out of human skin, or stuffing furniture with human hair?

18 posted on 06/24/2019 1:05:38 PM PDT by LucyT (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall)
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To: detective

My Indian name for her is now ‘BARKING MOONBAT’...............


19 posted on 06/24/2019 1:07:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: detective

The members of the Communist conspiracy are showing their colors—PINKO!


20 posted on 06/24/2019 1:07:50 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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