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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Alligator Auschwitz works for that. Someone called it that last week.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We shouldn’t use any of the branding the nazis have provided. It’s the Everglades concentration camp.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the few new things the current crop of fascists have invented is a way to make all this horror sound fun and harmless by the use of mean humor.

So, yes, don’t call it that. I agree.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 week ago

And all the Nazis had was excellent graphic and fashion design

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because it really takes a seriousness away from it.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I 100% disagree. It's catchy, it's exactly the same, and gives you a picture in your head instantly.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That’s exactly the point: calling something a concentration camp shouldn’t sound like a marketing slogan that promotes it. Nothing really grabs attention of the public while also communicating something is unquestionably bad than calling a concentration camp. Because that’s exactly what it is.

[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree. As fun as it is to say, it puts a bit of humor into a humorless situation. No one would laugh if someone said German-Jew-Barbecue.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

no one would laugh

You sweet summer child

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 week ago

But it helps to have a marketing slogan to get others to understand that this is a bad thing. They built a facility for people to go and die in. Might as well call it Auschwitz.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 week ago

Alligator Auschwitz

Mayve a neon sign at the entrace "Deportation will set you free!"

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

We should call it Camp DeSantis.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

I prefer to call it a "Racist Torture Facility".

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m convinced this place is designed to kill people. I mean, they defunded noaa, cancelled FEMA, and built a hastily constructed, non-storm rated facility and dropped it in hurricane alley. It’s already flooded once.

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ah so that's their play. Weaponized negligence.

I'm going to go with "U.S. Dachau". Descriptive timing and initial stated intent for the camp in its relationship to nazi Germany. No cute branding, just straight attribution. I was thinking of going with "Republican..." but that would only blame half the parties; its the US flag flying overhead after all.