>They said CECOT is essentially a death camp - which is true.
Because people are held there for life, or that the death rates there are high?
>They said CECOT is essentially a death camp - which is true.
Because people are held there for life, or that the death rates there are high?
If you would just extend your quote, like, a couple more sentences, you would see why I said it's a death camp.
That's a neat trick though, including a quote of just a tiny part to give the impression I'm talking out of my ass. Doesn't really work however, because I actually have eyeballs and I think most people here do.
We can just... you know... look, like, 2 inches up.
If you're talking about
>It's a prison that we have no information on in a totalitarian country. We do know they routinely torture their prisoners. I would think Americans, of all people, would take issue with this.
I agree that americans should take issue with this, but as bad as totalitarianism and torture is, those do not make a death camp. By the same token, for all the human right abuses committed in Guantanamo Bay, it's not a death camp. Yes, totalitarian torture camps are bad, and so are death camps, but they're separate things and we shouldn't be in the habit of equating bad-but-not-death camps to Auschwitz just to score some rhetorical points.
Splitting hairs between "death camp" and "torture camp" doesn't change the rhetorical meaning of their post, so they didn't score any additional "points" (who is keeping score? Is this a game?); systematically torturing people is just as depraved as systematically murdering them.