• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    14 hours ago

    “Indian reservations” are concentration camps

    German labor camps were obviously concentration camps

    and the strategic hamlet program were concentration camps

    and ICE detention centers are concentration camps

    either way it is always white people and their concentration camps

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      14 hours ago

      I get the sentiment, and by no means are the reservations good or something that should’ve been how it played out, but I do feel like putting them on the same level as ICE centers and concentration camps downplays just how bad those latter two really are/were.

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        I get the feeling you’ve not been told about all the death and disease Native Americans experienced in reservations, especially at the beginning. The only real difference is reservations did not have buildings…they were just wastelands.