{"id":3655,"date":"2019-06-23T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2019-06-23T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:01:01","slug":"the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/06\/23\/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the link to the New Yorker article with the title above: <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#inbox\/FMfcgxwChSFHTpvHqwWKDnnsCxpJnCZC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#inbox\/FMfcgxwChSFHTpvHqwWKDnnsCxpJnCZC (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#inbox\/FMfcgxwChSFHTpvHqwWKDnnsCxpJnCZC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many arguments, the fight over the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tag\/concentration-camps\">concentration camp<\/a>\u201d  is mostly an argument about something entirely different. It is not  about terminology. Almost refreshingly, it is not an argument about  facts. This argument is about imagination, and it may be a deeper, more  important conversation than it seems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> On Tuesday, she [ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/07\/23\/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-historic-win-and-the-future-of-the-democratic-party\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ]<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1140968240073662466\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> a link to an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a27813648\/concentration-camps-southern-border-migrant-detention-facilities-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in <em class=\"\">Esquire<\/em>  in which Andrea Pitzer, a historian of concentration camps, was quoted  making the same assertion: that the United States has created a  \u201cconcentration camp system.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I think it is a good thing that we have such diversity of opinions and that we are still able to exercise the right of expression here in these United States of America.  I do not think it would take too much to tip the balance the other way and there are most certainly right and left elements that would like to see this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the link to the New Yorker article with the title above: https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#inbox\/FMfcgxwChSFHTpvHqwWKDnnsCxpJnCZC Like many arguments, the fight over the term \u201cconcentration camp\u201d is mostly an argument about something entirely different. It is not about terminology. Almost refreshingly, it is not an argument about facts. This argument is about imagination, and it may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}