A concentration camp is a facility used for the internment of political prisoners, members of targeted demographic groups (like ethnic minorities), or for exploitation and punishment.
Key aspects of concentration camps:
Detention without trial: Individuals are held without due process or formal charges.
Harsh conditions: Inmates often face overcrowding, starvation, disease, and brutal treatment.
Forced labor: Many concentration camps utilized prisoners for forced labor under inhumane conditions.
The treatment of American Indians throughout U.S. history has been a complex and often tragic story, marked by forced displacement, violence, and attempts at assimilation. While the term “concentration camp” is most often associated with the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, some historians and legal scholars argue that certain aspects of the U.S. government’s policies toward Native Americans, particularly the reservation system and Indian boarding schools, share characteristics with concentration camps.
Arguments for this comparison include:
Forced confinement: Native American tribes were often confined to reservations, restricted from leaving without permission, similar to the forced confinement in concentration camps.
Punitive conditions: Reservations frequently had inadequate resources, leading to poverty, disease, and high mortality rates, echoing the harsh conditions in concentration camps.
Forced labor: In some cases, Native Americans on reservations were compelled to perform labor, further drawing parallels to concentration camps.
Cultural destruction: Indian boarding schools, designed to eradicate Native American languages and traditions, have been described as instruments of “cultural genocide,” a tactic sometimes employed in concentration camps.
Dehumanization: The narrative surrounding Native Americans, often portraying them as “primitive” or “savages”, contributed to a climate where their rights and humanity were disregarded.
https://hmh.org/library/research/genocide-of-indigenous-peoples-guide
I have spoken many times about how the troubled teen industry and its network of boarding schools, rehabs, and wilderness camps continue to do the job of assimilating difficult teens or teens from different cultures or religions for fascist parents. They use a lot of the same tactics that these concentration camps for the indigenous used. They shave your head, strip you of any nicknames or anything that sets you apart from others, beat you, withhold food from you, make you do slave labor, house you in less than humane conditions, severe any connection you have with family or friends outside the facility, laugh and mock those trying to escape saying they will be shot or hunted and brought back etc. Many of these places get away with terrible things because they claim religion and religious rights to do this to children or claim the parents have a right to put their kid through that kind of Hell. Unfortunately, legally, in some states they are correct. Parents do have a great deal of liberty to send their kids to torturous hell-holes. I encourage you to read my books, other blogs about this subject, and see that many teens are currently stuck in what would fit the definition of a concentration camp here in the US at this very moment.
During WWII “American concentration camps” incarcerated of over 120,000 people of Japanese descent, the majority of whom were American citizens. These camps were established due to wartime hysteria and prejudice against Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast and relocated to remote areas, often in harsh desert or swampy locations. The camps were surrounded by barbed wire fences and guard towers, creating a prison-like environment. Families were housed in crowded barracks with limited privacy and amenities.
Japanese Americans were incarcerated without charges or trials, based solely on their ethnicity. In 1988, the US government officially apologized for the internment and provided financial reparations to surviving detainees.
The War Relocation Authority (WRA) oversaw ten main relocation centers: Tule Lake and Manzanar in California, Gila River and Poston in Arizona, Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas, Minidoka in Idaho, Topaz in Utah, Heart Mountain in Wyoming, and Granada in Colorado.
Besides the main relocation centers, there were also other facilities like Angel Island (Fort McDowell), Camp Blanding, and Camp Forrest, where German and Italian detainees were also held in addition to Japanese Americans, according to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese-American_internment_camps
Now we come to present day where we see ICE rounding up immigrants. We were told they were going to go after criminals. They instead are hunting kids at school, farmers in the field, and non violent people everywhere. They are arresting and bullying citizens. They are doing all of this masked without ID and often without any warning. History is repeating itself while we watch.
If you don’t believe that the ICE facilities are concentration camps, then you haven’t been paying attention.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses
Sounds and looks like a Nazi concentration camp to me. How about you?
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article310953215.html
There are a lot of examples of these concentration camps in America throughout our history. We founded this country by stealing the land from the Indigenous. We took their kids and assimilated them in camps. That’s how things started. People think the Nazis invented concentration camps. We were doing it before them. We still are.
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