AOC Defends 'Concentration Camp' Tweets About Migrant Conditions
Published Date: 6/18/2019
Source: TicToc by Bloomberg
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she's "absolutely comfortable" referring to migrant conditions on the U.S. southern border as "concentration camps." "First of all, I'm absolutely comfortable using that term because it is rooted in an academic definition. Often times when people, you know, when the term concentration camp is evoked, what people think of are extermination camps. They think of Auschwitz. And I think what we need to realize is that one of the biggest lessons that we learn from both Holocaust historians, civil rights academics and experts is that it takes a process, a slow gradual process of increasingly dehumanizing steps. // So when you talk about, for example, why the Republican Party has not joined us in actively fighting the horrifying separation of children from their parents and it clearly doesn't bother them enough to the point where they will actually join us in stopping that. I think that we really need to, really take a look at, why that is and I think part of it is because of the dehumanizing rhetoric towards immigrant communities." Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm TICTOC ON SOCIAL: Follow TicToc on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tictoc Like TicToc on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tictoc Follow TicToc on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tictoc Watch all of TicToc’s videos: https://www.tictoc.video/ Listen to TicToc’s podcast: https://apple.co/2D3Vta7 Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/2FJ0oQZ TicToc by Bloomberg is global news for the life you lead. We are a 24/7 news network that covers breaking news, politics, technology, business and entertainment stories from around the globe, supported by a network of Bloomberg’s 2,700 journalists across 120 countries