UNITED STATES presidential hopeful Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has ignited a firestorm by comparing the migrant detention facilities on the Southern border to concentration camps. Critical thinker John Turnbull takes a look at the history of these insidious institutions and asks whether AOC might be A-OK?
WITH around 24 potential Democratic candidates in the running for the 2020 election, 29-year-old Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still six years too young to take on Donald Trump, but this hasn’t stopped her making a big noise about some important issues. Highly engaged with the social media generation, AOC made history as the youngest woman sworn into the U.S. Congress, and had her own Footloose moment when some old white men tried to shame her for dancing.
Earlier this week, AOC said that migrants and refugees (or illegal immigrants, depending on your perspective) being held at the U.S./Mexico border were being held in “concentration camps”. Conservative commentators were quick to condemn her statement and the Yad Vashem Museum in Israel suggested that AOC needed a history lesson:
.@AOC Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of “extermination through labor.”
Learn about concentration camps https://t.co/oBPQsjf6FC#Holocaust #History pic.twitter.com/nmc9As2nlO
— Yad Vashem (@yadvashem) June 19, 2019
Read the article by John Turnbull on Independent Australia.