Comment by CaptWillard
9 days ago
Not sure when you graduated, but I've seen a complete inversion.
Much like 90s rockers, they now rage exclusively on behalf of the machine.
9 days ago
Not sure when you graduated, but I've seen a complete inversion.
Much like 90s rockers, they now rage exclusively on behalf of the machine.
1990, FWIW.
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Well I think that is the point. The university now are rolling over, not protecting their student.
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First we're not allowed to call the detention camps "concentration camps" because there aren't ovens, now we can't call them "disappearances" because they're not getting thrown out of helicopters. Forget that people are getting shipped to a foreign torture slave camp from which nobody has been released with, and with no due process.
I think this language policing may be because people don't want to allow opposition to these things, rather than out of honor for the dead. The way to honor the dead is to prevent the circumstances of their deaths from happening again.
Which is exactly why we must stand up against the disappearances, the camps, the collaborators, the secret police.
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The fact that very bad things happened to the Disappeared of Argentina makes me more concerned about the Disappeared of US, not less.
Did you go down to Plaza de Mayo to speak to some of las Madres and ask how they feel about it, or where is your idea coming from?
Kidnapped off the streets? I think for “bodies burned in pits” I might prefer “slaughtered” or “butchered”. Disappeared sounds rather light for what we’re currently discussing to my ear.
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I agree getting shipped off to a concentration camp ("detention center") without resource to justice is not on par with getting thrown out of a helicopter, but it's starting to get pretty damn close. And Trump is only getting started. If he had 7 years like the Junta did, we might wind up with our own contingent of desaparecidos.
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