Thank you. Concentration camps were used by the English in the Boer War, they are not solely a Shoah thing.

what’s more is this sort of language ownership creates a relative scale that one day could render the horror of the holocaust less. what happens when another population is exterminated in the future (north koreans, say), or if/when we redefine horrors not by temporal efficiency or methods of murder or specific…

And against the Japanese in the US during WWII.

Can we please also try not to forget that concentration camps (unlike death camps) have a longer history and were one of the many brilliant inventions of the British Empire? Used first against the native people of Africa? I’d like to be able to say publicly what is an objective historical fact without being branded a…

“Let’s dispense with sloppy comparisons and, while we’re at it, assume that Holocaust comparisons are henceforth off-limits.”

I actually agree with this point. Having lost family members to the Holocaust—of one branch of the extended family, only two individuals survived the camps—I know that there is no rational conversation on this topic. The horror and the grief and the rage are so immense (and should be) that it seems obscene to impose…

I disagree that his use of the term was misguided. If we’re working from this definition of concentration camp:

You’re right. Kissinger’s ability to diss someone who is unfortunately relevant in a way we find momentarily entertaining as we all prepare for various dystopian fictions to manifest into our current reality also translates to complete forgiveness and unanimous approval for Henry Kissinger.

Or are we just saying ‘even…

This space has been traversed for nearly four months by Jared Kushner, whom I first met about 18 months ago, when he introduced himself after a foreign policy lecture I had given.

Excuse me while I snort my birth control off my desk.

Look, the anthem is for and about Donald. What with him being the greatest thing ever. It’s just weird that he has to show respect to a song about himself.

high as fuck right now USA

Obviously if a man cries there is something wrong with him. That’s the story you want to tell?

I loved Lethal Weapon as a kid and Mel Gibson had to go and ruin it by being a racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic nutjob.

I didn’t even need to make this, google provides.

there’s a big difference between supporting the bombs in syria and supporting his foreign policy as a whole.

dating in New York as a 30-something executive in private equity

It is still not clear to the family how Malachi got his hands on the dangerous weapon. Stephens said that he got the gun from a friend who got it from someone else. Investigators are looking into finding out who originally had the gun and passed it to the friend, the news station notes.

eh... anyone reading over your shoulder is a monster, it’s just rude. ;-)