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Ocasio-Cortez compares ICE detention to 'concentration camps'

"The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday night in an emotional Instagram live video. 

"They are concentration camps," she reiterated to her viewers, who flooded the feed with comments.

Check a dictionary.

She is strictly correct, on the most general and innocuous definition of the term.

So used, the expression does not mean "death camp" and there is no necessary implication of any particular inhumanity of fact or intention.

And in truth our border detention centers seem to compare well with refugee camps in Europe or elsewhere, packed with illegal migrants as they are.

But dictionaries also note the term is sometimes used specifically to refer to the Nazi death or work camps or camps just as bad, or more generally to camps in which conditions are notably harsh and inhumane.

And from her remarks that is the sort of meaning she intended, and she extended the claim to cover the US internment camps where the Japanese were held during WW2.

And that makes her an egregious liar about both the border camps and the internment camps.

A flap ensued, with her devout left-winger defenders doubling down stupidly, ignorantly, or just fatuously.

The more she runs her mouth the more absurd she reveals herself to be and the less I like her.