no migrant detention facilities are not auschwitz but i promise you something does not have to be auschwitz in order to be very bad. i am telling you that this comparison distracts from the point instead of galvanizing support by inviting discussion about the appropriateness of the comparison. i am telling you that there are ways to make people listen and ways to make them tune out, especially in a time like now.
like, “detention camps that are so neglected and filled with squalor that it leads to mass death” is bad enough. you don’t need to say it’s the same as “place designed to kill as many people as possible and use the ones they don’t kill as slave labor until they collapse dead”. you really don’t. they can be two separate bad things.
amhrancas 