Think for Yourself: Concentration Camps

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 weekAOC 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:

 

Read the article by John Turnbull on Independent Australia.