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Don't forget that we put Japanese people (including US citizens with Japanese ancestry) in concentration camps during WWII. "Internment camps", we called them... what a euphemism. And unfortunately our record isn't great on forced sterilization either: https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-sterilization-policies-us... https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilizat... https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/ame…
'Concentration camp' started as a euphemism too. The Nazis actually borrowed the originally English term.
> The term concentration camp originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces detained Cuban civilians in camps in order to more easily combat guerrilla forces. Over the following decades the British during the Second Boer War and the Americans during the Philippine–American War also used concentration camps.
So this goes back to the mid 1800s, not just from WWII. But I guess the Nazis didn't want to correctly label them "extermination camps", big surprise there.
Then there's:
> The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term concentration camp as: "A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group which the government has identified as dangerous or undesirable."
So I guess the "concentration" bit is because they are taking people of a certain group and "concentrating" them physically in one location. So... okay... but still a really weird term to me.